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

Canonical's Ubuntu repos on Github hacked

Canonical's Ubuntu repos on Github hacked

Defacement only.
Juha Saarinen Jul 8 2019 6:50AM Security
Rogue regex trips Cloudflare worldwide

Rogue regex trips Cloudflare worldwide

"Very painful for our customers."
Juha Saarinen Jul 3 2019 8:15AM Cloud
Robots.txt to become an internet standard after 25 years

Robots.txt to become an internet standard after 25 years

Ambiguity for spidering the web begone.
Juha Saarinen Jul 3 2019 7:15AM Networking
Some users locked out of Microsoft 365

Some users locked out of Microsoft 365

Infrastructure issue investigated.
Juha Saarinen Jul 3 2019 7:00AM Cloud
Virtual world Second Life to enforce anti-money laundering regs

Virtual world Second Life to enforce anti-money laundering regs

Players will need to provide government identification.
Juha Saarinen Jul 2 2019 10:37AM Financial Services
Poison certs imperils GnuPG checking of Linux software

Poison certs imperils GnuPG checking of Linux software

"Devastating attack" likely to get worse.
Juha Saarinen Jul 1 2019 11:31AM Security
Airservices picks Northrop Grumman for VHF IP radios

Airservices picks Northrop Grumman for VHF IP radios

To integrate with OneSKY air traffic management system.
Juha Saarinen Jun 28 2019 6:55AM Hardware
Outgoing NZ Treasury Secretary slammed for 'clumsy' hacker response to budget data leak

Outgoing NZ Treasury Secretary slammed for 'clumsy' hacker response to budget data leak

Budget breach should never have happened under any circumstances.
Juha Saarinen Jun 27 2019 12:50PM Security
Chinese government-sponsored hackers allegedly hit global telcos

Chinese government-sponsored hackers allegedly hit global telcos

Stone Panda burrows into networks to steal information.
Juha Saarinen Jun 26 2019 11:38AM Security
Google senior exec claims entrapment by right-wing activists

Google senior exec claims entrapment by right-wing activists

Head of ethical ML receives threats after covert film published.
Juha Saarinen Jun 26 2019 7:05AM Security
Google open sources privacy-preserving analytics tool

Google open sources privacy-preserving analytics tool

Private Join and Compute lets researchers work with sensitive information.
Juha Saarinen Jun 20 2019 9:50AM Security
Australian Catholic University breach nets staff details

Australian Catholic University breach nets staff details

Unknown number of accounts accessed.
Juha Saarinen Jun 18 2019 6:24AM Security
NBN scam losses sky rocket over last year

NBN scam losses sky rocket over last year

Elderly targeted.
Juha Saarinen Jun 17 2019 10:19AM Security
Two charged over police phone DoS attacks

Two charged over police phone DoS attacks

Callers responding to texts for help were played abusive recording.
Juha Saarinen Jun 17 2019 6:30AM Security
Scores of vulnerable Exim servers on Australian networks

Scores of vulnerable Exim servers on Australian networks

Millions of mail servers under attack worldwide.
Juha Saarinen Jun 14 2019 12:15PM Security
Afterpay hit with anti-money laundering audit by AUSTRAC

Afterpay hit with anti-money laundering audit by AUSTRAC

"Reasonable grounds to suspect"...
Juha Saarinen Jun 13 2019 10:22AM Financial Services
Google decloaks Win-DoS bug before patch is released

Google decloaks Win-DoS bug before patch is released

Flaw "can take down a Windows fleet pretty quickly".
Juha Saarinen Jun 12 2019 9:41AM Security
Patch now against wormable 'BlueKeep' remote desktop flaw: ACSC

Patch now against wormable 'BlueKeep' remote desktop flaw: ACSC

Spectre of another WannaCry-style epidemic raised.
Juha Saarinen Jun 7 2019 6:55AM Security
Apple, Google, Microsoft tell GCHQ to drop 'ghost' spy protocol

Apple, Google, Microsoft tell GCHQ to drop 'ghost' spy protocol

Violates human rights, privacy and creates dangerous cyber risks.
Juha Saarinen May 31 2019 8:10AM Security
Cops say NZ Treasury site wasn't actually hacked after Budget leaked

Cops say NZ Treasury site wasn't actually hacked after Budget leaked

Repeated searches of staging site spilled sensitive budget information.
Juha Saarinen May 30 2019 5:59AM Security

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