The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story

Clifford Stoll recounts how he tracked a KGB-linked hacker through the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory network in 1986.

Clifford Stoll an Astronomer that traced a spy through the maze of computer espionage and created one of the most original DFIR stories in history. In August 1986 Cliff Stoll was working at the Lawrence Berkley Laboratory (LBL). When he was handed a mystery by his supervisor for an accounting error of .75 dollars. At that time, computer resources were expensive. Every amount of computing that was used had to be billed to a project or department within the laboratory. The story of the FBI, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB), and Chaos Computer Club. In the first well documented Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this YouTube channel are solely those of the individual creator and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organisation, company, or institution that the creator may be associated with. #Cybersecurity #CybersecurityTips #CybersecurityTutorial #OnlineSecurity #InternetSecurity #NetworkSecurity #DataSecurity #EthicalHacking #CybersecurityAwareness #ProtectingYourselfOnline #documentary