Hardcover, 326 pages
English language
Published Feb. 23, 1989 by Doubleday.
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll. It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Stoll's use of the term extended the metaphor Cuckoo's egg from brood parasitism in birds to malware.
Subjects
- Hess, Markus
- Stoll, Clifford
- Espionage, Soviet -- United States
- Espionage, Soviet -- Germany -- Hannover
- Defense information, Classified -- United States -- Databases
- Computer crimes -- United States
- Computer crimes -- Germany -- Hannover