Nik Cubrilovic is an Australian former

hacker A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals and solves problems by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hackersomeone with knowledge of bug (computing), bugs or exp ...

and leading

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blogger A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

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Personal life

Nik Cubrilovic () is an ethnic

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Work

In 2011 he successfully forced

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

to address a privacy flaw whereby the site would continue to track your web surfing habits even when logged out. In May 2014 he published research into the weakness of the Australian government's my.gov.au websites illustrating a number of flaws allowing user impersonation, issues that were finally fixed in January 2015. In September 2014 he provided analysis into the various security vectors such as

phishing Phishing is a form of social engineering and a scam where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information or installing malware such as viruses, worms, adware, or ransomware. Phishing attacks have become increasingly sophisticate ...

, searching of public

social media Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...

sites and weaknesses in

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iCloud iCloud is the personal cloud service of Apple Inc. Launched on October 12, 2011, iCloud enables users to store and Data synchronization, sync data across devices, including Apple Mail, Calendar (Apple), Apple Calendar, Photos (Apple), Apple Ph ...

software which may have been used in the 2014 celebrity photo hack going on to consult for a number of other publications on the matter. In November 2014 his analysis of hidden services seized in

Operation Onymous Operation Onymous was an international law enforcement operation targeting darknet markets and other hidden services operating on the Tor network. Background Operation Onymous was formed as a joint law enforcement operation between the Fede ...

cast doubt on the official figures from law enforcement about the effectiveness of the operation, claiming a 276 services not 400 were seized, and that 153 of those were scam or clone sites. He has provided various coverage and commentary on

Tor Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to: Places * Toronto, Canada ** Toronto Raptors * Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain * Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city * Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano * Tor Bay, Devon, England * Tor ...

and the

Dark Web The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets ( overlay networks) that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the dark web, private computer networks can communica ...

on matters such as the

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trial. In January 2018 he was arrested for alleged hacking

GoGet GoGet CarShare is a car sharing service operating in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. The service was the first of its kind in Australia. GoGet was launched as Newtown CarShare on 6 June 2003 with three vehicles and twelve founding members. Fol ...

, a car sharing company.

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cubrilovic, Nik Writers about computer security Australian male bloggers Serbian male bloggers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Australian people of Serbian descent