The cuckoo's egg : tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage / Cliff Stoll. [print]

"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.

This is the true story of how a systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab singlehandedly tracked down and helped capture a computer hacker who had been breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy and plunged into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top U.S. counterintelligence agents. The Cuckoo's Egg is his wild and suspenseful true story a year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases, and the ultimate sting operation and how one ingenious American trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.

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