Kim Zetter is an award-winning investigative journalist and book author who covers security, cybercrime, digital warfare, surveillance and civil liberties. She has been covering computer security and the hacking underground since 1999, first for PC World magazine, and more recently for WIRED, where she began writing in 2003. In 2004, long before fears of Russia hacking US presidential elections became an issue, she wrote a series of award-winning investigative pieces about the security problems with electronic voting machines and their susceptibility to hacking. She was among the first journalists to cover Stuxnet, and in 2014, Crown/Random House.published her widely acclaimed book on the topic titled Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon.