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

Orica completes co-lo clear-out in shift to AWS

Orica completes co-lo clear-out in shift to AWS

Completed in less than 15 months.
Juha Saarinen Aug 26 2020 12:12PM Cloud
ASIC sues financial services company for repeated hacks

ASIC sues financial services company for repeated hacks

Hacker spent 155 hours logged in without detection.
Juha Saarinen Aug 21 2020 10:53AM Security
Uber's former CSO charged over hush money to hackers

Uber's former CSO charged over hush money to hackers

Cover up of massive 2016 data breach alleged.
Juha Saarinen Aug 21 2020 6:47AM Security
Optus opts for crowd-sourced mapping of service problems

Optus opts for crowd-sourced mapping of service problems

Accepts problem reports from anywhere in the world.
Juha Saarinen Aug 20 2020 4:10PM Telco/ISP
Semiconductor giant SK Hynix silent on ransomware attack

Semiconductor giant SK Hynix silent on ransomware attack

Supplies memory modules to Apple and PC makers.
Juha Saarinen Aug 20 2020 11:57AM Security
Internet Explorer 11's death march starts now

Internet Explorer 11's death march starts now

"Degraded experience" to begin in November.
Juha Saarinen Aug 19 2020 10:42AM Security
Researchers find AWS creds stealing worm

Researchers find AWS creds stealing worm

Copy-and-paste malware attacks Docker and Kubernetes systems.
Juha Saarinen Aug 19 2020 10:05AM Security
Cruise operator Carnival hit by ransomware

Cruise operator Carnival hit by ransomware

Guest and employee personal data taken.
Juha Saarinen Aug 18 2020 12:28PM Security
Windows Defender update takes out Citrix

Windows Defender update takes out Citrix

Definition 1.321.1319.0 quarantines Broker Service.
Juha Saarinen Aug 14 2020 6:57AM Security
Two exploited zero-days fixed in Patch Wednesday

Two exploited zero-days fixed in Patch Wednesday

120 bugs squashed in total.
Juha Saarinen Aug 12 2020 12:42PM Security
Trump seeks to clear out China from networks worldwide

Trump seeks to clear out China from networks worldwide

'Clean Networks' targets include Huawei, ZTE, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
Juha Saarinen Aug 6 2020 11:25AM Hardware
US offers bounties on election-interfering nation state hackers

US offers bounties on election-interfering nation state hackers

Rewards of up to US$10 million on the table.
Juha Saarinen Aug 6 2020 9:01AM Security
Netwalker ransomware raiders rake in the money

Netwalker ransomware raiders rake in the money

Businesses paying up.
Juha Saarinen Aug 5 2020 11:50AM Security
Storage failure downs New Zealand Defence websites

Storage failure downs New Zealand Defence websites

Down for a week with no estimate for restoration.
Juha Saarinen Jul 31 2020 3:00PM Hardware
Zoom private meeting passwords were easily crackable

Zoom private meeting passwords were easily crackable

Did not rate limit low-complexity password guesses.
Juha Saarinen Jul 31 2020 9:44AM Security
Morgan Stanley customer data left on decommissioned servers

Morgan Stanley customer data left on decommissioned servers

Offers two years' worth of credit reporting and fraud detection.
Juha Saarinen Jul 31 2020 9:35AM Financial Services
Boothole GRUB2 bug breaks Secure Boot on Linux and Windows

Boothole GRUB2 bug breaks Secure Boot on Linux and Windows

Fixes will have to be carefully tested and deployed to avoid bricking.
Juha Saarinen Jul 30 2020 12:39PM Security
Open source F5 Big-IP exploit detector released

Open source F5 Big-IP exploit detector released

You should still patch your F5 devices.
Juha Saarinen Jul 29 2020 11:25AM Networking
Garmin confirms cyber attack caused system outage

Garmin confirms cyber attack caused system outage

Expects to be back online in the next few days.
Juha Saarinen Jul 28 2020 11:34AM Security
Mystery actor disrupts Emotet malware distribution botnet

Mystery actor disrupts Emotet malware distribution botnet

Malware payloads replaced with animated GIFs.
Juha Saarinen Jul 25 2020 11:36AM Security

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