http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/090911-google-contacts-iranian-users-to-250653.html By John Ribeiro IDG News Service September 09, 2011 Google is directly contacting users in Iran, who may have been compromised by a rogue SSL certificate, to recommend measures to secure their accounts. While Google's internal systems were not compromised, it is directly contacting possibly affected users and providing information on securing their accounts because its top priority is to protect the privacy and security of its users, Eric Grosse, vice president of security engineering, said in a blog post late Thursday. Close to 300,000 unique IP addresses from Iran requested access to google.com using a rogue certificate issued by Dutch digital certificate authority DigiNotar, between Aug. 4 and Aug. 29, according to an interim report by security firm, Fox-IT, released on Monday. The list of IP addresses would be handed over to Google who can inform users that their e-mail may have been intercepted during this period, Fox-IT said. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Fri Sep 09 2011 - 00:58:55 PDT
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