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

LastPass source code copied by hacker

LastPass source code copied by hacker

Attacker accessed developer environment.
Juha Saarinen Aug 26 2022 11:25AM Security
Twilio and Cloudflare attacks part of extensive phishing campaign

Twilio and Cloudflare attacks part of extensive phishing campaign

Over 130 organisations worldwide targeted, including Australia.
Juha Saarinen Aug 26 2022 11:24AM Security
Malware floods npm and PyPi registries in supply-chain attacks

Malware floods npm and PyPi registries in supply-chain attacks

Over 200 packages try to drop cryptominers.
Juha Saarinen Aug 22 2022 5:06AM Security
Apple drops iOS and iPadOS 15.6.1 to fix two exploited zero days

Apple drops iOS and iPadOS 15.6.1 to fix two exploited zero days

Kernel and WebKit bugs abused.
Juha Saarinen Aug 18 2022 6:33AM Security
Oh Deere: Aussie researcher roots tractor control system

Oh Deere: Aussie researcher roots tractor control system

Simple text file gave dealer-level access.
Juha Saarinen Aug 16 2022 11:39AM Security
Twilio phish sees Signal users' numbers at risk of re-registering

Twilio phish sees Signal users' numbers at risk of re-registering

Locally stored user information can't be compromised, company says.
Juha Saarinen Aug 16 2022 6:35AM Security
US puts million-dollar bounty on Russian ransomware raiders

US puts million-dollar bounty on Russian ransomware raiders

To capture Conti criminals.
Juha Saarinen Aug 12 2022 12:01PM Security
ACCC greenlights Google's buy of Mandiant

ACCC greenlights Google's buy of Mandiant

Finds no competition risk.
Juha Saarinen Aug 11 2022 12:30PM Security
Patch Wednesday fixes two-year-old Dogwalk vulnerability

Patch Wednesday fixes two-year-old Dogwalk vulnerability

Path traversal bug in diagnostics tool could be used for remote code execution.
Juha Saarinen Aug 10 2022 6:40AM Security
Twilio phishers went after Cloudflare, but failed

Twilio phishers went after Cloudflare, but failed

Most organisations would probably be breached in sophisticated attack.
Juha Saarinen Aug 10 2022 6:33AM Security
Twilio hacked in phishing attack

Twilio hacked in phishing attack

Customer data taken.
Juha Saarinen Aug 9 2022 8:34AM Security
ACSC and CISA detail top malware of 2021

ACSC and CISA detail top malware of 2021

Two Trojans in use for over a decade.
Juha Saarinen Aug 5 2022 12:45PM Security
Patches out for serious vulnerabilities in several VMware products

Patches out for serious vulnerabilities in several VMware products

Authentication bypass and remote code execution bugs fixed.
Juha Saarinen Aug 3 2022 6:30AM Security
South Pacific spanning Humboldt Cable issues RFP

South Pacific spanning Humboldt Cable issues RFP

To include Scott Base Antarctic spur.
Juha Saarinen Aug 2 2022 6:30AM Telco/ISP
Apple Engineering staves off attempted network route hijack

Apple Engineering staves off attempted network route hijack

Russian telco Rostelecom tried redirecting traffic through its network.
Juha Saarinen Jul 29 2022 12:05PM Networking
Patch out for critical SQLi bug in SonicWall management products

Patch out for critical SQLi bug in SonicWall management products

Rated as 9.4 out of 10 on CVSS.
Juha Saarinen Jul 25 2022 12:10PM Security
Apple releases large surprise set of security patches

Apple releases large surprise set of security patches

Five bugs rated as critical by security researchers.
Juha Saarinen Jul 21 2022 11:45AM Security
Microsoft details massive phishing operation

Microsoft details massive phishing operation

Adversary in the Middle campaign tried to target over 10,000 organisations.
Juha Saarinen Jul 13 2022 12:40PM Security
Florida man accused of selling counterfeit Cisco gear

Florida man accused of selling counterfeit Cisco gear

Enterprise and government customers allegedly defrauded.
Juha Saarinen Jul 11 2022 6:36AM Hardware
Southern Cross commissions new trans-Pacific NEXT cable

Southern Cross commissions new trans-Pacific NEXT cable

To provide 72Tbps more capacity.
Juha Saarinen Jul 7 2022 12:15PM Networking

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