How can you tell of a hack attempt

Hi
Freaking a little!! So any quick advise!
I was at college teaching and had my laptop on Ethernet and Wireless.
Anyway, I was using one of the iMacs the college has and was leaving my laptop to be idle.
I looked over when the screen suddenly lit up and the mouse moved on its own.
I held my mouse and the cursor carried on moving and even clicked on an application. That opened up.
I disconnected quickly and shut the lid.
I am not home trying to understand what happened.
Can someone give me advise on what it was, if it was a hack, or could it have been another wireless mouse in range that accidentally controlled my computer by mistake?
Any help please
I have now switched on the system Firewall and am running WaterRoof (however, I don't know how to configure that)
Thanks in advance

Rob Snow wrote:
Is there a way to make it so that only my computer and the other two computers can interact and no others?
You can use a tool like Waterroof to configure the ipfw firewall to allow only your home machines to connect.
I also didn't have the firewall on, as I heard much the same, that the system Firewalll is pretty useless and to use the modem one instead.
It isn't useless, just misused and misunderstood. I don't know what you mean by "modern" firewall. The "older" one is actually much more powerful and much more difficult to use.
Now, I could assume that the attempt was by a student that saw me on the network, but they need to know my password.
That is true. Given how common cell phones and cameras are these days, it would have been pretty trivial to record you typing your password and play it back in slow motion.
Anyway, now that I have firewall on, I see that sharing options have been turned off or are inactive.
I will change my password and then see how things go.
Keep in mind that you must now change all of your passwords. There is no way for you to tell when your password was compromised. Once you get one password, you can easily social engineer others. Plus, whomever had your password also had access to all of your files.
Is there a way you can via the menu bar activate and deactivate such services, instead of going to system prefs every time. Or a shortcut?
The quickest way is to disable all incoming connections in the firewall.

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