The Cuckoo's Egg (book)
| Author | Clifford Stoll |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 326 |
| ISBN | 0-385-24946-2 |
| OCLC | 43977527 |
| 364.16/8/0973 21 | |
| LC Class | UB271.R92 H477 2000 |
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 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
Stoll's use of the term extended the metaphor cuckoo's egg from brood parasitism in birds to malware.