By Holly Gilbert Stowell
PCWorld has compiled a list of the eight “scariest digital security stories of 2014 (so far).” Cybersecurity attacks making up the list include the Target breach, the Heartbleed vulnerability, and the rapid expansion of ransomware, a type of malicious software that holds a user’s device or personal Web accounts “hostage” until the hacker is paid a fee. The article also points out breaches at businesses that didn’t make as many as headlines but signify a growing threat, including at Michael’s, eBay, AOL, and restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s. Rounding out the list is the story of Microsoft confessing in March that it had snooped on an employee’s personal e-mail account to find evidence that he had dealt in company trade secrets. Microsoft “revamped its privacy policy after the backlash,” vowing to not search any Outlook user’s e-mail “unless the circumstances would justify a court order, if one were available.”
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