Kimberly Zetter

Kim Zetter is an award-winning investigative journalist and author who has covered cybersecurity and national security for more than 15 years, first as a staff writer for WIRED, and more recently as a freelance journalist for New York Times Magazine, Politico, Washington Post, WIRED and others.


She has repeatedly been voted one of the top 10 security journalists in the country by security professionals and her journalism peers. She has written extensively about nation-state hacking and cyber warfare and published a book on the topic - Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon. The book was chosen for the Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List and appears on the required reading list of many university courses. In 2023 she co-taught a course at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies on signals intelligence. She also publishes articles about cybersecurity and national security at her own site: Zero Day