Juha Saarinen

Juha Saarinen has been covering the technology sector since the mid-1990s for publications around the world. In addition to techpartner.news, he has written for iTnews since 2010 and also contributes to the New Zealand Herald, the Guardian and Wired's Threat Level section.

He is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Recent articles by Juha Saarinen

US-CERT issues alert for Regin state-sponsored malware

US-CERT issues alert for Regin state-sponsored malware

GSM networks targeted.
Juha Saarinen Nov 27 2014 8:58AM Security
Southern Cross Cable telcos 'partnered' with spy agencies

Southern Cross Cable telcos 'partnered' with spy agencies

Cable itself not tapped, CEO says.
Juha Saarinen Nov 27 2014 7:53AM Security
The failure of the antivirus industry

The failure of the antivirus industry

[Blog post] Insights from AVAR 2014.
Juha Saarinen Nov 26 2014 10:37AM Security
Adobe urges users to patch critical Flash Player flaw

Adobe urges users to patch critical Flash Player flaw

Attackers quick to exploit earlier, inadequate patch.
Juha Saarinen Nov 26 2014 6:01AM Security
AWS ups storage ante with 5TB Zocalo files

AWS ups storage ante with 5TB Zocalo files

Mobile clients get upgrades.
Juha Saarinen Nov 25 2014 3:31PM Storage
Regin state-sponsored malware traced to UK, US spies: report

Regin state-sponsored malware traced to UK, US spies: report

Used in surveillance on EU, Belgian telco.
Juha Saarinen Nov 25 2014 6:01AM Security
Vodafone would sell Australian operation 'for the right price'

Vodafone would sell Australian operation 'for the right price'

Updated: Telco boss Colao invites offers for non-core assets.
Juha Saarinen Nov 21 2014 6:14AM Telco/ISP
Mozilla dumps Google for Yahoo as default search

Mozilla dumps Google for Yahoo as default search

No single global default search engine for Firefox.
Juha Saarinen Nov 20 2014 7:19PM Software
Azure cloud suffers multi-region outage

Azure cloud suffers multi-region outage

Update: Microsoft offers details on bug.
Juha Saarinen Nov 20 2014 6:14AM Storage
EFF to launch free digital cert authority

EFF to launch free digital cert authority

Wants to replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Juha Saarinen Nov 20 2014 5:08AM Telco/ISP
Huawei claims 100Mbps possible over 800m copper lines

Huawei claims 100Mbps possible over 800m copper lines

SuperVector ekes out more performance.
Juha Saarinen Nov 19 2014 5:47AM Telco/ISP
Pawsey Magnus supercomputer packs petascale prowess

Pawsey Magnus supercomputer packs petascale prowess

Named 41st in the world.
Juha Saarinen Nov 19 2014 5:01AM Hardware
Tech giants push for legal curbs on govt surveillance

Tech giants push for legal curbs on govt surveillance

More work needed to rein in spy agencies.
Juha Saarinen Nov 18 2014 5:44AM Security
Microsoft makes full .NET server-side core stack open source

Microsoft makes full .NET server-side core stack open source

Enables .NET to run on Apple OS X and Linux.
Juha Saarinen Nov 13 2014 6:47AM Software
Getting tricked into playing social roulette

Getting tricked into playing social roulette

[Blog post] Defences against social engineering are failing.
Juha Saarinen Nov 12 2014 1:09PM Security
Juniper CEO quits over 'conduct with a customer' spat

Juniper CEO quits over 'conduct with a customer' spat

Replaced immediately by Rami Rahim.
Juha Saarinen Nov 12 2014 6:26AM Networking
Microsoft debuts first non-Nokia Lumia phone

Microsoft debuts first non-Nokia Lumia phone

Dual-SIM model available, 3G only.
Juha Saarinen Nov 12 2014 6:24AM Hardware
Photos: Microsoft Lumia 535

Photos: Microsoft Lumia 535

The first Lumia handset without Nokia branding.
Juha Saarinen Nov 12 2014 5:01AM Telco/ISP
Apple iOS flaw lets attackers replace apps with malware

Apple iOS flaw lets attackers replace apps with malware

Masque Attack tricks users into installing malicious code.
Juha Saarinen Nov 11 2014 6:49AM Security
Pizza Hut's PoS systems suffer year-long malware blast

Pizza Hut's PoS systems suffer year-long malware blast

ZeroAccess rootkits cleaned out.
Juha Saarinen Nov 10 2014 12:53PM Security

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