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

Wipro hacked, internal systems used to attack customers: report

Wipro hacked, internal systems used to attack customers: report

Months-long intrusion.
Juha Saarinen Apr 16 2019 10:44AM Security
Ransomware-raided Aussie businesses pay up

Ransomware-raided Aussie businesses pay up

Majority get their data back.
Juha Saarinen Apr 16 2019 6:06AM Security
New wi-fi security standard broken already

New wi-fi security standard broken already

WPA3 Dragonfly implementations not done properly.
Juha Saarinen Apr 11 2019 12:43PM Security
First Australia - Hong Kong data cable to be built

First Australia - Hong Kong data cable to be built

Onwards connections to China and the United States.
Juha Saarinen Apr 10 2019 10:55PM Telco/ISP
Google hybrid cloud out of beta, renamed Anthos

Google hybrid cloud out of beta, renamed Anthos

Can manage workloads running on "third-party clouds like AWS and Azure".
Juha Saarinen Apr 10 2019 6:59AM Cloud
Assange to be ejected from Ecuadorean embassy

Assange to be ejected from Ecuadorean embassy

Out within "hours to days".
Juha Saarinen Apr 5 2019 12:10PM Security
Giant trove of Facebook user data was in open AWS S3 bucket

Giant trove of Facebook user data was in open AWS S3 bucket

In plain sight say cyber security researchers.
Juha Saarinen , Staff Writers Apr 4 2019 11:30AM Cloud
Millions of customers' data accessed in second Toyota hack

Millions of customers' data accessed in second Toyota hack

Tokyo sales subsidiaries raided.
Juha Saarinen Apr 1 2019 7:20AM Security
Christchurch terrorist's banned rant booby trapped with disk wiper

Christchurch terrorist's banned rant booby trapped with disk wiper

Overwrites disk master boot records.
Juha Saarinen Apr 1 2019 12:50AM Security
Microsoft seizes Iranian hackers' spear-phishing domains

Microsoft seizes Iranian hackers' spear-phishing domains

"Phosphorous" group loses control over phishing infrastructure.
Juha Saarinen Mar 28 2019 12:49PM Security
ASUS releases fix after ShadowHammer malware attack

ASUS releases fix after ShadowHammer malware attack

But some users unable to update to non-backdoored software.
Juha Saarinen Mar 27 2019 10:11AM Security
Heartless phishers prey on donation efforts after Christchurch terrorist attack

Heartless phishers prey on donation efforts after Christchurch terrorist attack

NZ banks issue scam warnings.
Juha Saarinen Mar 22 2019 12:07PM Security
Facebook stored millions of user passwords in plain text

Facebook stored millions of user passwords in plain text

Hundreds of millions of users to be notified.
Juha Saarinen Mar 22 2019 6:25AM Security
Microsoft resurrects Clippy

Microsoft resurrects Clippy

Only for Teams however.
Juha Saarinen Mar 20 2019 10:38AM Software
Atlassian plumps $234 million for US agile planning software provider

Atlassian plumps $234 million for US agile planning software provider

AgileCraft acquired.
Juha Saarinen Mar 19 2019 12:25PM Software
Intel and Facebook add deep learning nous to Cooper Lake CPU

Intel and Facebook add deep learning nous to Cooper Lake CPU

Open hardware moves towards workload optimisation.
Juha Saarinen Mar 15 2019 6:43AM Hardware
Facebook, Messenger and related apps go offline worldwide

Facebook, Messenger and related apps go offline worldwide

Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger affected users say.
Juha Saarinen Mar 14 2019 7:07AM Telco/ISP
Credit cards cancelled as Kathmandu reveals online store hacked

Credit cards cancelled as Kathmandu reveals online store hacked

Month-long breach during peak discount period.
Juha Saarinen Mar 13 2019 3:00PM Security
Patch Wednesday plugs exploited Windows vulnerabilities

Patch Wednesday plugs exploited Windows vulnerabilities

Seventeen flaws rated critical.
Juha Saarinen Mar 13 2019 12:40PM Security
Big tech companies team up for new interconnect standard

Big tech companies team up for new interconnect standard

Compute Express Link products to appear in 2021.
Juha Saarinen Mar 12 2019 7:23AM Cloud

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