subject: Network Safety: Public Computers and Keystroke Stealers [print this page] Network Safety: Public Computers and Keystroke Stealers
You can't always get access to your home computer. You might be on vacation, or even in your own town at an internet caf, when you will have the need to check your bank balance, just to make sure you have the funds in the right place to pay for that night on the town. You sit down at that public computer and type in your secure password to access your bank accounts. What you don't know is that this computer has a program built in to it, a program that records everything you did, including every key that you pressed, including the ones you used to type in your username and password. And now, the individual who placed the program on that computer has access to your bank account and all your money.
When you use Logaway.com, you are protected from this kind of theft, even on a public computer. Logaway keeps your encrypted information on a secure site and it's accessed not by keystrokes, but by the click of the mouse. You log in to Logaway with a special encryption code to use with this unknown computer. This is so they know it's really you. Without this code, no one else can access your Logaway site.
But, you're thinking, if they know your keystrokes, they can access your Logaway account. Then they would have access to all of your personal information and accounts. Well, no, they don't. Two reasons; first, the special access code will reset after an amount of time, rendering it useless; secondly, even if they somehow manage to get to the computer in time to reuse the code, the login page for Logaway employs an on-screen keyboard, so you don't type in your codes, you use your mouse to enter your password and all that's recorded is the useless mouse clicks.
