'Paypal hacked!!' Avoid Getting Hacked | Protection against Keyloggers

Keylogger have also been popular, still are!

I don't know how many of you are aware of this but I'll go ahead and share it with you all. First things first, if you've been infected by a keylogger program your actions will be recorded, hacker usually receives the logs by email through a little SMTP or similar program that is usually setup in keylogger during the development process. In other words, typing your password into input password field will be recorded and stored into a file in usually 'appdata' or 'temp' folder. Which then is periodically sent to hacker's email address. Next thing you know your passwords have been changed and Paypal money transferred. Being infected and changing passwords won't do any good since keystrokes are will still be recoded.

One way to stay somewhat safe against this malicious act is to encrypt your keystrokes. Imaging your password is '123456789', if it's encrypted it will be completely converted to a encrypted characters, making hacker almost impossible to revert it. So when they get email with passwords, they will be unable to read it.

Here's an example of '123456789' text hashed using SHA-256.
15e2b0d3c33891ebb0f1ef609ec419420c20e320ce94c65fbc8c3312448eb225

I'm on Linux right now, but when I was on windows I used to use a program called https://www.qfxsoftware.com/

Those who're keen to test it out you can setup any keylogger on your own PC and and check the data whether it's readable.