Study: E-mail the No. 1 way to leak company secrets; blogs and videos rank No. 2

If your boss is worried that employees will leak sensitive information through social media channels, well, he should, but he or she should be worrying more about e-mail. “In a survey of some 220 companies, [security firm] Proofpoint found that email is still the No. 1 offender when it comes to data leaks,” Marisa Taylor wrote for The Wall Street Journal . “About 43% of respondents had investigated an email-based security breach during the past year.” Meanwhile, 18 percent of resp…

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