Jun 18, 2021
This week’s OODAcast is with Kim Zetter, an incredibly well
respected journalist who has been covering cybersecurity related
issues for two decades. Matt Devost talks with Kim about a
wide variety of cyber-related issues including a deep dive into
Stuxnet and the implications for today’s security environment. Kim
also shares details as to how she got into the field and how she
developed relationships with the hacker community via her
longstanding attendance at Def Con.
Kim is an award-winning investigative journalist and author who
has covered cybersecurity and national security for more than a
decade, most recently as a staff writer for WIRED. Her work has
also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Politico, Washington
Post and others.
She has broken numerous stories about NSA surveillance,
WikiLeaks, and the hacker underground, including an award-winning
series about security problems with electronic voting machines.
She has four times been voted one of the top ten security
journalists in the U.S. by her journalism peers. She’s considered
one of the world’s experts on Stuxnet, a virus/worm used to
sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, and wrote an acclaimed book on the
topic – Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the
World’s First Digital Weapon.
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