Key Logger
nounid
3078·updated May 9, 2026verified
A program designed to record which keys are pressed on a computer keyboard used to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypass other security measures.
MWE
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Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Keylogger
- plural
- Key LoggersKeyloggers
- possessive
- Key Logger'sKeylogger's
- pluralpossessive
- Key Loggers'Keyloggers'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- Software or hardware that tracks keystrokes and keyboard events, usually surreptitiously / secretly, to monitor actions by the user of an information system.
- §1
- Software used to record all keystrokes on a computer
- §1
- A program designed to record which keys are pressed on a computer keyboard used to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypass other security measures.
- §1
- A program designed to record which keys are pressed on a computer keyboard used to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypass other security measures.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- A program designed to record which keys are pressed on a computer keyboard used to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypass other security measures.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →Spywarenoun
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
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