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

RangeAmp attacks turn CDNs into giant DoS cannons

RangeAmp attacks turn CDNs into giant DoS cannons

No botnet needed, just a laptop.
Juha Saarinen May 26 2020 10:14PM Cloud
Objective Corporation under investigation in NZ over MBS buy

Objective Corporation under investigation in NZ over MBS buy

Faces million dollar fine if found guilty of breaching Commerce Act.
Juha Saarinen May 26 2020 3:27PM Training & Development
Unc0ver jailbreak opens up Apple iOS 11 to 13.5

Unc0ver jailbreak opens up Apple iOS 11 to 13.5

Uses new XNU kernel zero-day.
Juha Saarinen May 24 2020 11:11AM Security
Telstra 5G clocks 157 Mbps on average, says Opensignal

Telstra 5G clocks 157 Mbps on average, says Opensignal

Access to more spectrum and mmWave would make a difference.
Juha Saarinen May 23 2020 1:00PM Telco/ISP
Microsoft's Linux embrace continues with DirectX-tend

Microsoft's Linux embrace continues with DirectX-tend

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 gets accelerated graphics.
Juha Saarinen May 21 2020 12:12PM Hardware
Researchers warn of unfixable DNS denial of service NXNSAttack

Researchers warn of unfixable DNS denial of service NXNSAttack

Most major DNS resolvers need patching to mitigate against NXNSAttack.
Juha Saarinen May 20 2020 12:58PM Security
New Zealand cans auction, hands telcos cheap 5G spectrum

New Zealand cans auction, hands telcos cheap 5G spectrum

Government hopes free bandwidth will help COVID-19 recovery.
Juha Saarinen May 13 2020 8:26AM Telco/ISP
Unfixable Thunderbolt flaws bypass computer access security

Unfixable Thunderbolt flaws bypass computer access security

Millions of late model Windows and Linux PCs vulnerable, ditto Apple Macs.
Juha Saarinen May 12 2020 1:50PM Hardware
New Zealand to get its own Microsoft Azure region

New Zealand to get its own Microsoft Azure region

Local access to cloud services touted.
Juha Saarinen May 6 2020 12:40PM Cloud
Security experts release curated lists to block COVID-19 threats

Security experts release curated lists to block COVID-19 threats

Multi-use data sets can be used for several applications.
Juha Saarinen May 6 2020 8:17AM Security
Hackers hit remotely rootable SaltStack systems

Hackers hit remotely rootable SaltStack systems

Patch, and do not expose Salt masters to the internet.
Juha Saarinen May 4 2020 1:52PM Security
ICANN nixes ISOC .org deal with private equity firm Ethos Capital

ICANN nixes ISOC .org deal with private equity firm Ethos Capital

"Unacceptable uncertainty over the future" of the Public Interest Registry cited.
Juha Saarinen May 1 2020 1:09PM Training & Development
Beware human-operated ransomware campaigns: Microsoft

Beware human-operated ransomware campaigns: Microsoft

Merciless criminals establish persistence on networks for months.
Juha Saarinen Apr 29 2020 1:46PM Security
NSO ran US-based attack servers: Facebook

NSO ran US-based attack servers: Facebook

Hundreds hacked via QuadraNet and AWS.
Juha Saarinen Apr 26 2020 4:50PM Security
Aussie and US cyber spooks issue joint anti-web shell malware guidance

Aussie and US cyber spooks issue joint anti-web shell malware guidance

Atlassian products commonly exploited.
Juha Saarinen Apr 23 2020 10:07AM Security
Security bugs bite IBM's Data Risk Manager

Security bugs bite IBM's Data Risk Manager

Rejected researcher's bug report.
Juha Saarinen Apr 22 2020 12:26PM Security
Windows Defender chokes on two-dot file names

Windows Defender chokes on two-dot file names

Microsoft releases update.
Juha Saarinen Apr 17 2020 8:12AM Security
'Remote hands' flub takes out much of Cloudflare

'Remote hands' flub takes out much of Cloudflare

Multi-hour outage after maintenance mistake.
Juha Saarinen Apr 16 2020 6:26AM Cloud
Microsoft patches exploited Windows zero-days

Microsoft patches exploited Windows zero-days

Hefty Patch Wednesday arrives with 113 fixes.
Juha Saarinen Apr 15 2020 1:08PM Security
Microsoft Teams to raise viewable participants to nine

Microsoft Teams to raise viewable participants to nine

But users still want to see everyone.
Juha Saarinen Apr 14 2020 12:59PM Cloud

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