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

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, the threat emerged after disgraced Dutch SSL certificate authority DigiNotar was compromised.

As Google, correctly points out – it’s not just a question of changing…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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