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

File format fail behind England's COVID case underreporting

File format fail behind England's COVID case underreporting

Health agency developers used old Excel .XLS files.
Juha Saarinen Oct 6 2020 11:16AM Software
Testing mistake triggered Telstra route 'hijacks'

Testing mistake triggered Telstra route 'hijacks'

Routing mishaps difficult to prevent.
Juha Saarinen Oct 5 2020 7:33AM Networking
DevOps solutions provider CloudBees discloses data breach

DevOps solutions provider CloudBees discloses data breach

Malicious actor accessed failover database for a year.
Juha Saarinen Oct 1 2020 12:49PM Security
Telstra routing flub affects hundreds of networks worldwide

Telstra routing flub affects hundreds of networks worldwide

Accusations of BGP hijacking fly.
Juha Saarinen Sep 30 2020 9:33AM Networking
'ZeroLogon' hackers scan for unpatched servers

'ZeroLogon' hackers scan for unpatched servers

Researcher's honeypot picks up exploitation attempt.
Juha Saarinen Sep 28 2020 6:51AM Security
DOS Subsystem for Linux breaks cover

DOS Subsystem for Linux breaks cover

Penguinistas cop a load of HIMEM.SYS.
Juha Saarinen Sep 23 2020 11:57AM Software
Researchers say not to use myGovID until login flaw is fixed

Researchers say not to use myGovID until login flaw is fixed

ATO declines to change protocol.
Juha Saarinen Sep 21 2020 11:52AM Security
Maze ransomware criminals go virtual to evade detection

Maze ransomware criminals go virtual to evade detection

Close to 2 gigabyte virtual disk image hides payload.
Juha Saarinen Sep 18 2020 8:30AM Security
Researcher finds Tony Abbott's passport number in ticketing engine code

Researcher finds Tony Abbott's passport number in ticketing engine code

Amadeus takes five months to fix info leak.
Juha Saarinen Sep 16 2020 4:27PM Security
Legacy protocols used to bypass Microsoft 365 MFA

Legacy protocols used to bypass Microsoft 365 MFA

Legacy protocols, out of band channel hijacking and real-time phishing.
Juha Saarinen Sep 16 2020 3:34PM Security
'Zerologon' Windows domain admin bypass exploit released

'Zerologon' Windows domain admin bypass exploit released

Vulnerability patched last month far worse than thought.
Juha Saarinen Sep 15 2020 11:49AM Security
Slack patching means easy pickings for Chinese govt hackers

Slack patching means easy pickings for Chinese govt hackers

F5 Big-IP, Citrix, Pulse VPN and Microsoft Exchange servers routinely exploited.
Juha Saarinen Sep 15 2020 10:56AM Security
US adversaries step up hacking campaigns ahead of elections

US adversaries step up hacking campaigns ahead of elections

Users and organisations urged to enable MFA to thwart attacks.
Juha Saarinen Sep 11 2020 12:15PM Security
Millions of devices vulnerable to BLURtooth info leak bug

Millions of devices vulnerable to BLURtooth info leak bug

Industry Bluetooth Special Interest Group suggests mitigations.
Juha Saarinen Sep 11 2020 11:46AM Security
Palo Alto Networks warns of critical remote code execution bug

Palo Alto Networks warns of critical remote code execution bug

Patch or be pwned.
Juha Saarinen Sep 11 2020 10:24AM Security
Patch Wednesday fixes 'worst-case scenario' Exchange bug

Patch Wednesday fixes 'worst-case scenario' Exchange bug

Another large set of security updates this month.
Juha Saarinen Sep 9 2020 11:13AM Security
BitConnect spruiker banned by ASIC

BitConnect spruiker banned by ASIC

Seven year don't do that applied to John Biggaton.
Juha Saarinen Sep 4 2020 6:40AM Financial Services
SonicWall left users exposed to vulnerable API for 14 days

SonicWall left users exposed to vulnerable API for 14 days

LinkedIn poke at chief executive accelerated fix.
Juha Saarinen Sep 3 2020 2:45PM Security
September ushers in halved TLS cert lifespans

September ushers in halved TLS cert lifespans

Browser vendors decided 13 months is long enough.
Juha Saarinen Aug 31 2020 11:45AM Security
Over 54,000 scanned NSW driver's licences found in open cloud storage

Over 54,000 scanned NSW driver's licences found in open cloud storage

TfNSW investigates mystery data leak on AWS S3.
Juha Saarinen Aug 28 2020 12:56PM Security

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