The Cuckoo's Egg

List of Newsletter Posts: https://cybersecurityhour.com/t/the-cuckoos-egg

Cybersec Canon Ep 1. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 1 & 2. When Debugging Uncovers More Than Bugs

Cybersec Canon Ep 2. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 3 & 4. The Hidden Cost of Custom Software Ecosystems

Cybersec Canon Ep 3. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 5-8. Wiretapping at the Dawn of Cybersecurity

Cybersec Canon Ep 4. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 9-12. Variety in Software Solutions

Cybersec Canon Ep 5. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 13-16. The CIA Gets Involved

Cybersec Canon Ep 6. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 17-23. The Science of Tracing

Cybersec Canon Ep 7. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 24-30. From Dead End to Transatlantic Connection

Cybersec Canon Ep 8. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 31-36. The Bremen Connection

Cybersec Canon Ep 9. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapter 37-41. The Hacker gets bolder, Cliff sets up a Bait

Cybersec Canon Ep 10. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapters 42-47. The Trace is Completed, but no Arrest Yet

Cybersec Canon Ep 11. The Cuckoo’s Egg - Chapters 48-56. The Hacker Ring Exposed

References

1. CyberCanon Review: https://cybercanon.org/the-cuckoos-egg/

2. Stalking the Wily Hacker (Cliff’s ACM article) - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/42411.42412

3. The Cuckoos Egg - MITRE ATT&CK Mapping - https://chertoffgroup.com/mapping-the-cuckoos-egg/

4. CTI Summit Keynote - Cliff Stoll - (Still) Stalking the Wily Hacker -

5. Guinness Records - First incident of cyber-espionage - https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/612868-first-incident-of-cyber-espionage

6. Great Rivalries in Cybersecurity: Cliff Stoll vs. Markus Hess - https://www.cybersecurityeducationguides.org/cliff-stoll-vs-markus-hess/

7. The Cuckoo’s Egg & How it Relates to Cybersecurity - https://www.exida.com/blog/the-cuckoos-egg-how-it-relates-to-cybersecurity

8. NOVA documentary - The KGB, the Computer and Me -

9. An Introduction to Information Security Course using The Cuckoo’s Egg - http://www.chrissanders.org/cuckoosegg