On 23/09/2018 15.45, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
Hackers target real estate deals, with devastating impact

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hackers-target-real-estate-deals-devastating-impact-015558592.html



«...and at closing time wired $272,000 from their bank following
instructions they received by email.

Within hours, the money had vanished.

Unbeknownst to the Colorado couple, the email account for the real
estate settlement company had been hacked, and fraudsters had altered
the wiring instruction to make off with the hefty sum representing a big
chunk of the Butchers' life savings, according to a lawsuit filed in
state court.»


Here is a very simple PGP client that will automatically set itself up and is simple to use. You should insist a company you are dealing with uses PGP. I refused to buy precious metals once from a company because they wouldn't communicate with me using PGP. They were foolishly fearful that the IRS would think they were doing something illegal. So they opened their customers to being revealed and endangered.


PGPG, huh?

And how would you know that the PGP public key you have is in fact the
key of the correct real state agency, and not of some other "person"?
How are you going to ensure the proper chain of trust, hein?

That's assuming that the hackers don't have control of the agency computer.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentlegpg/


Some other:

https://www.gpg4win.org/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ppgp/




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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.