In less than one hour last Thursday, Internet security journalist Elinor Mills mastered the tools of the hacker trade at McAfee’s Malware Experience event.
It takes “as little as $300 to infect several Windows clients and take complete control of them in a test environment,” Mills reports. By using real samples of malicious code, she was able to infect PCs with a Sub Seven Trojan and gain remote access to the machines. Once inside the computers, she was exposed to some of the malicious tricks hackers can play on unsuspecting malware victims.
