KEYLOGG - A TOUCH BASED KEY LOGGING APPLICATION

Prathamesh Bhosale, Saurabh Hanchate, Ajay Dasarwar, Mohak Indurkar

Abstract: As Open Source Technologies are gaining popularity in the IT industry, consumers and developers look forward to it as a cheap and durable resource. However the concerns on privacy on Open Source are highly overlooked. Here, we intend to highlight the potential security risk in the open source mobile operating system, Android by implementing Touchlogger. This application is capable of recording the touch activities happening on the smart phones keyboard. As the application will be a covert application, we wish to achieve our goal of logging by a third party keyboard. Our application will create a log file of activities done by the user in a certain time span. The activities such as call logs, texts, text messages and browsing history can be logged. The log file will keep the record of all activities and can be accessed by authorized user only. The log activity will be sent to the desired receiver. In users interest to protect the privacy, one should always install application from Google Play Store only. Upon installation, the user should check the requested permission and be alerted if there is some slowness while typing

Keywords: Key Logg, Key Logging, Touchlogger

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0504003