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

Expired Ericsson cert causes UK and Japan mega outages

Expired Ericsson cert causes UK and Japan mega outages

Manual updates being rolled out.
Juha Saarinen Dec 7 2018 8:17AM Telco/ISP
Huawei chief financial officer arrested in Vancouver

Huawei chief financial officer arrested in Vancouver

Faces extradition to the US over Iran sanctions busting allegations.
Juha Saarinen Dec 6 2018 11:15AM Telco/ISP
Activ8me gets court a second time for alleged misleading broadband marketing

Activ8me gets court a second time for alleged misleading broadband marketing

"Up to 100 Mbps" turned out to be 12/1 Mbps.
Juha Saarinen Dec 5 2018 2:22PM Telco/ISP
Quora hacked, about 100 million user accounts leaked

Quora hacked, about 100 million user accounts leaked

Chief executive apologises and promises transparency.
Juha Saarinen Dec 4 2018 12:21PM Security
Citrix resets Sharefile passwords after creds stuffing attacks

Citrix resets Sharefile passwords after creds stuffing attacks

Re-used logins bite users.
Juha Saarinen Dec 4 2018 6:53AM Security
Brit spies 'solve' interception without encryption breaking problem

Brit spies 'solve' interception without encryption breaking problem

Snowden unimpressed.
Juha Saarinen Nov 30 2018 8:48AM Security
Kiwi spooks nix Huawei from 5G network build

Kiwi spooks nix Huawei from 5G network build

Spark "disappointed" it can't use Chinese telco vendor's 5G gear.
Juha Saarinen Nov 28 2018 2:43PM Security
Is mobile device management a malware menace?

Is mobile device management a malware menace?

Not so fast...
Juha Saarinen Nov 28 2018 12:24PM Security
Unknown dev gets rights to popular module, adds crypto stealer

Unknown dev gets rights to popular module, adds crypto stealer

'Everything wrong with open source software security'.
Juha Saarinen Nov 27 2018 11:41AM Security
Storm brewing over Israeli spyware firm over sales to Saudis

Storm brewing over Israeli spyware firm over sales to Saudis

Snowden sees Pegasus involvement in grisly Khashoggi murder.
Juha Saarinen Nov 27 2018 10:42AM Security
Microsoft closes actively exploited Windows zero-day

Microsoft closes actively exploited Windows zero-day

Remote code execution bugs in Edge taken care of too.
Juha Saarinen Nov 14 2018 9:37AM Security
Australia's online card fraud problem is the polar opposite of America's. Here's why...

Australia's online card fraud problem is the polar opposite of America's. Here's why...

Millions of US chip cards compromised over past year.
Juha Saarinen , Julian Bajkowski Nov 13 2018 12:10PM Financial Services
Route leak sends Google Cloud traffic to Russia

Route leak sends Google Cloud traffic to Russia

"Hijack" caused by Nigerian ISP.
Juha Saarinen Nov 13 2018 11:22AM Security
Pentagon starts outing APT zero-days on VirusTotal

Pentagon starts outing APT zero-days on VirusTotal

Fancy Bear-ware made public.
Juha Saarinen Nov 12 2018 7:00AM Security
Microsoft server outage deactivates Windows licenses

Microsoft server outage deactivates Windows licenses

Win10 Pro users told they have to go Home.
Juha Saarinen Nov 9 2018 9:44AM Software
Weak self-scrambling SSDs opens up Windows BitLocker

Weak self-scrambling SSDs opens up Windows BitLocker

Adding software encryption recommended to boost BitLocker security.
Juha Saarinen Nov 7 2018 7:00AM Security
How a 1974 bug still bites Win10 and Azure users

How a 1974 bug still bites Win10 and Azure users

Oh no! Catastrophic failure!
Juha Saarinen Nov 5 2018 1:40PM Software
Eftpos and ATMs go dark after Telstra fault

Eftpos and ATMs go dark after Telstra fault

Crash causes cashless commerce problems.
Juha Saarinen , Julian Bajkowski Nov 5 2018 7:00AM Telco/ISP
Cisco ASA and Firepower appliances under attack

Cisco ASA and Firepower appliances under attack

Miscreants remotely crash network security devices.
Juha Saarinen Nov 2 2018 10:42AM Security
Apple fixes remote crash vulnerability in macOS and iOS versions

Apple fixes remote crash vulnerability in macOS and iOS versions

Slow disclosure of kernel-crashing remote code execution bug.
Juha Saarinen Oct 31 2018 10:30AM Security

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