Kim Zetter

Kim Zetter is a cybersecurity and national security investigative journalist and author. She is the author of "is the author of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon."

Zetter is considered a leading expert on election security and cyberwarfare and her book, "Countdown to Zero Day," tells the true story of a successful covert operation conducted by the U.S. and Israel to unleash an offensive cyberattack that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program.

She is an independent journalist writing for WIRED, New York Times Magazine, Politico, the Washington Post, and others. Security professionals and her journalism peers have repeatedly voted her one of the top ten security journalists in the U.S.

Zetter has broken numerous national stories over the years about NSA and FBI surveillance, election security, cybercrime, and cyberwarfare. She wrote a ground-breaking three-part series on the hacking and carding underground in 2007, which provided an inside look for the first time at online criminal forums through the eyes of a grifter who ran a forum undercover for the FBI. She broke the story about the arrest of Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for stealing millions of government documents and providing them to WikiLeak. She broke a national story about Russia's sabotage of Ukraine's power grid and its use of that country as a testing ground for cyberattacks to be used around the world. She wrote a New York Times Magazine cover story on the crisis of election security.

Zetter has appeared on CNN, NBC, NPR, and other national TV and radio programs, including "Fresh Air," where she spoke with host Terry Gross about election security issues. She has also spoken on various topics at conferences and private events around the world. In 2022, she gave a keynote address at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, one of the premier cybersecurity conferences in the world.