Stoll, Clifford,

The cuckoo's egg : tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage / [print] Cliff Stoll. - New York : Pocket Books, (c)2005. - 399 pages ; 21 cm.

"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 --



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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.

UB271.S875.C835 2005