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Google tells Iranian users to check if their Gmail accounts have been hacked

09

Sep

2011

Google is advising *all* its users in Iran to change their Gmail passwords, and check that their Google accounts have not been compromised. In a blog post, Google said that it was directly contacting users in Iran who may have been hit by a man-in-the-middle attack. As you’ve no doubt been reading on Naked Security, […]

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The bigger issue with the rogue Google SSL cert

30

Aug

2011

Today we saw the discovery of another rogue SSL certificate – this time for *.google.com. The certificate itself was issued five weeks ago. This will allow an attacker to sniff the traffic to virtually all of Google’s services even with HTTPS enabled. Right now, there’s an unconfirmed report this attack is happening in Iran. Frankly, […]

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Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

30

Aug

2011

Diginotar is a Dutch Certificate Authority. They sell SSL certificates. Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name .google.com. What can you do with such a certificate? Well, you can impersonate Google — assuming you can first reroute Internet traffic for […]

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