The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

A real-life cyber detective story, The Cuckoo’s Egg is the gripping account of how one man uncovered an international espionage ring by chasing down what began as a 75-cent accounting error.

Clifford Stoll, an astronomer turned systems administrator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the 1980s, noticed a small discrepancy in computer usage logs. That tiny error led him to discov…