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Touchlogging Represents a Real Mobile Risk

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 8, 2014

For years, security researchers have warned about the risks of keylogging software on computing platforms. Keyloggers, quite literally log and record the keystrokes taken by a user in a bid to learn passwords and other valuable information.

According to Trustwave security researchers, that risk has now jumped to mobile devices with the risk that touchlogging software can log user actions on mobile devices.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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