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

The last book of the list best books on terrorism is The Cuckoo's Egg. The author Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll is an astronomer, author, and teacher from the United States. His research in 1986, while working as a systems administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, led to the arrest of hacker Markus Hess, and Stoll's later book The Cuckoo's Egg, which chronicles the inquiry.

One astute US citizen foresaw the internet's frightening potential before it became generally acknowledged as a global tool for terrorists. He began a highly personal quest to expose a covert network of spies that risked national security, armed with clear evidence of electronic espionage. Would the authorities, on the other hand, back him up? Cliff Stoll's captivating firsthand account is described by Smithsonian as "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] stunningly gripping."

Cliff Stoll, an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, was alerted to the presence of an illegal user on his system by a 75-cent accounting blunder. The hacker's code name was "Hunter," and he was a mysterious intruder who broke into US computer networks and stole critical military and security data. Stoll went on his one-man quest, spying on the spy. It was a perilous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases - a one-man sting operation that finally drew the CIA's attention...and led to the capture of a worldwide spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.

Some reviews about this book: “Great history lesson for system administrators and security experts.”; “I'm not much of a book reader, but this was a real page turner! I was there back in the 300 baud modem days and can really identify what the author had to go through to track down this attacker during this time.”

Author: Cliff Stoll

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