Eva Galperin is the Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and technical advisor for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.[1] She is noted for her extensive work in protecting global privacy and free speech and for her research on malware and nation-state spyware.[2]

Biography

Galperin was born in Latvia to Jewish parents who escaped Soviet antisemitism by seeking refuge in the United States. Her family resettled in California in the 1980s.[3] Galperin became interested in computers at an early age through her father, who was a computer security specialist.[2] When she was 12, he created a desktop for her on his Unix/Solaris computer and she became active in Usenet discussion areas about science fiction novels and playing interactive text games, and she later became active in web development.[2] She attended college at San Francisco State University for political science and international relations while working as a Unix system administrator at various companies in Silicon Valley.[4]

Galperin joined the EFF in 2007. Prior to EFF, she worked at the Center for US–China policy studies, where she helped to organize conferences and researched Chinese energy policy.[5] At EFF, she led the Threat Lab project[6] before she was promoted as the EFF's Director of Cybersecurity in 2017.[7] Since 2018, she focused on the eradication of the "stalkerware" – spyware used for domestic abuse – industry, working with victims of stalkerwares. These malicious applications, which are being marketed to abusive spouses, overbearing parents, and stalkers, can be installed secretly on mobile devices, allowing their owners to monitor their targets' activities.[6]

Im April 2019 überzeugte sie den Antivirenhersteller Kaspersky Lab , Nutzer explizit vor Sicherheitsbedrohungen zu warnen, sobald Stalkerware auf dem Android- Gerät des Unternehmens entdeckt wird. Sie forderte Apple außerdem auf, Antiviren-Apps im Apple App Store zuzulassen und – wie Kaspersky – Nutzer zu benachrichtigen, wenn ihre Mobilgeräte gejailbreakt oder gerootet wurden. [ 8 ] Galperin erklärte, dass aufgrund des Wettbewerbs weitere Cybersicherheitsunternehmen diesem Beispiel folgen und den erhöhten Standard erfüllen würden. [ 9 ] Sie appellierte zudem an die US-Bundes- und Landesbehörden, Führungskräfte von Unternehmen, die Stalkerware entwickeln und verkaufen, wegen Hacking zu verhaften und strafrechtlich zu verfolgen. [ 9 ]

Referenzen

  1. ^ „Eva Galperin“ . Electronic Frontier Foundation . 7. Oktober 2011. Abgerufen am 10. August 2017 .
  2. ^ a b c Grimes, Roger A. (2017). Hacking the Hacker: Learn from the Experts Who Take Down Hackers . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119396215Die
  3. ^ Faife, Corin (21. März 2017). „Eva Galperin von der EFF sorgt für die Sicherheit von Aktivisten im Internet“ . Vice .
  4. ^ „Panel – Ein Abend mit der EFF“ . DEF CON® 25 Hacking Conference . Abgerufen am 10. August 2017 .
  5. ^ „Akademieprogramm 2013“ . Akademie2013 . Abgerufen am 10. August 2017 .
  6. ^ a b Greenberg, Andy (3. April 2019). „Wie Eva Galperin von der EFF die Stalkerware-Industrie zerstören will“ . Boing Boing . Abgerufen am 7. Mai 2019 .
  7. ^ Grimes, Roger A. (19.04.2017). Hacking the Hacker: Learn From the Experts Who Take Down Hackers . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. S. 235. ISBN 9781119396215Die
  8. ^ Eston, Tom (08.04.2019). „Facebooks schlechte Woche, Stalkerware, Betrug in der Steuersaison“ . Security Boulevard . Abgerufen am 07.05.2019 .
  9. ^ a b Greenberg, Andy (2019-04-03). „Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware“ . Wired . ISSN 1059-1028 . Abgerufen am 04.04.2019 .