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US 2011/0219457 A1Published application
System and method for incapacitating a hardware keylogger
AssigneeSafend Ltd.
InventorsIdo Keshet, Pavel Berengoltz, Leonid Dorrendorf
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Abstract
A system, device and method for incapacitating a keylogger. An inactivity of an input device may be detected. A flow of information from an input device to a computing device may be manipulated. A keylogger may be caused to store redundant information by causing the input device to produce redundant input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims17
A system for incapacitating a keylogger comprising:
- a computing device comprising a processor to:
- determine when an input device associated with said keylogger is inactive, and
- cause said keylogger to store useless information by causing said input device to:
- produce said useless information, and
- communicate said useless information to said keylogger.
2 more elements
A method for incapacitating a keylogger comprising:
- determining an inactivity period of an input device;
- causing said keylogger to store useless information by causing said input device to produce said useless information.
A method for incapacitating a keylogger comprising:
- generating a protocol packet, the protocol packet comprising a data and a header;
- associating an input device with said protocol packet;
- causing said keylogger to store said data by causing said keylogger to receive said protocol packet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.