The Cuckoo's Egg (book)

This article is about the cybersecurity book by Clifford Stoll. For other uses, see Cuckoo's egg.
The Cuckoo's Egg
AuthorClifford Stoll
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1989
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages326
ISBN0-385-24946-2
OCLC43977527
364.16/8/0973 21
LC ClassUB271.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 the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

Stoll's use of the term extended the metaphor Cuckoo's egg from brood parasitism in birds to malware.