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 --
9781416507789
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.