Vulnerability Assessment on the Secured USB Keyboard

Kyung-Roul Lee; Kang-Bin Yim

Vulnerability Assessment on the Secured USB Keyboard

Kyung-Roul Lee, Kang-Bin Yim, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 39-46, Oct. 2011
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Keywords: USB keyboard, Vulnerability Assessment, secure keyboard software, keyboard sniffing, password authentication

Abstract

The user authentication on the security applications is one of the most important process. Because character based password is commonly used for user authentication, it is most important to protect the keyboard. Due to the reason, several software solutions for keyboard security have been applied to critical sites. This paper introduces vulnerabilities to the commonly used USB keyboard, implements a sample code using the vulnerabilities and evaluates the possibility for the keyboard data to be stolen in the guarded environment. Through the comparison of the result, a countermeasure to the vulnerabilities is proposed.

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Cite this article

[APA Style]

Lee, K. & Yim, K. (2011). Vulnerability Assessment on the Secured USB Keyboard. Journal of Internet Computing and Services, 12(5), 39-46.

[IEEE Style]

K. Lee and K. Yim, "Vulnerability Assessment on the Secured USB Keyboard," Journal of Internet Computing and Services, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 39-46, 2011.

[ACM Style]

Kyung-Roul Lee and Kang-Bin Yim. 2011. Vulnerability Assessment on the Secured USB Keyboard. Journal of Internet Computing and Services, 12, 5, (2011), 39-46.