Choose the right expert at the right price, anytime day or night, at PC World Expert Help . The tricks hackers use, and what you can do to foil them. Can't Stop Them Nowhere to Hide With the click of a mouse on one computer, the screen of the laptop a few feet away flashes wildly as a flood of data flies silently across a private network cable connecting the two machines. Within a minute the laptop's file sharing password is compromised. Packets are coming at it so fast, the firewall doesn't know what to do.
Some hackers claim they can teach a monkey how to hack in a couple of hours.
But we also found out that computer users can make a hacker's job much harder by avoiding a few common mistakes.