Should You Stop Sending Private Messages Over Email?

With another high profile hack in the news, it’s worth asking: Can anyone trust email anymore?

The breach of the Democratic National Committee’s email by the website Wikileakspublished a trove of over 20,000 emails. It reminds us of the urgency of concerns surrounding cyber security.

“No email that you’ve ever written is ever deleted. There’s always a copy out there,” says Stephen Ward, a vice president with Pinkerton, an expert in risk management and security who specializes (among other things) in electronic security. “So you should always use that common sense approach: If this is something that’s groundbreaking for my company or it could change the world, should I send that in an email? Probably not.

One of the biggest problems with cyber theft, he explained, is the online data can’t be destroyed. Once a user’s secrets are released, they’re gone.  For the full article click here 

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