Questions about the book The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a SpyThrough the Maze of Computer Espionage” by Cliff Stoll.

1) What is the book's premise?
2) How did Cliff reconcile the accounting error? How long did theinvestigation take place?

3) How was the news of the intrusion received by the LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory? What challenges did Cliff encounterin his hunt to identify the hackers and why is it important to getmanagement buy-in before initializing such a massive incidentresponse effort?

4) What computer systems and networks did the hackers breakinto? What operating system were these computers and networksrunning? What application did the hackers exploit? What type offiles were they looking for?

5) What did Cliff do to identify the hacker's presence on thenetwork?

6) What private sector entities did Cliff contact to help in hisinvestigation? How did they support him? What information did heneed to provide them with to enable them to do their job?

7) What US Government entities were contacted to include otherUS National Labs? How did Cliff find their contact information? Howwas Cliff's findings received by them?

8) What award(s) was Cliff given for his work?
9) How was the news of the intrusion received after it was madepublic?

10) What insights did this book provide you with as it relatesto incident response and computer forensics? What processes are inplace today to report such a crime/hack? What parties should becontacted?

11) How do you think reading this book will help you in thefuture in both your academic career and post-graduation?

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1 The books premise is about Cliff Stoll a system administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who discovers a 75 cent accounting error in the labs computer system This leads him on a jo... View the full answer