TN Medical Center Notifies 8,000 Patients About Possible Data Breach

Officials from the University of Tennessee Medical Center are notifying approximately 8,000 patients that the facility did not properly dispose of hospital reports.   The personal information poses potential risk of a privacy data breach, according to a Knoxville News report.   In October, the hospital was notified that records containing private patient information were disposed [...]

Friday’s Food for Thought: Time for Some Levity When It Comes to Identity Theft

Every so often, we like to do a “Friday’s Food for Thought” post that showcases the entertaining, sublime and down-right funny. While we completely acknowledge that identity theft is not a laughing matter, songs and other popular culture snippet about identity theft can create more awareness about this issue. And, of course, we are not [...]

Supercookies: What Websites Know About You

Most major websites now install cookies on your computer, which track what you do online. Over time, these cookies develop a profile, which becomes your digital fingerprint, to a certain extent. You may have noticed after searching for a specific product, advertisements for that particular product or brand appearing on various other websites you visit. [...]

Using Social Media Passwords With Critical Accounts

InformationWeek reports, “All the major sites–Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn–have the same minimum password length of six characters. And password complexity checks are few and far between. Facebook and LinkedIn have no complexity checks. For MySpace, some complexity checking is enabled; however, users can enter a password of ‘123456.’ Twitter has a basic complexity check based [...]

Monday Morning News Kick Off: It’s Cyber Monday (Be Careful); DHS Power Over Private Networks and Olympics 2010 and Cyber Security

Welcome to the official post-Thanksgiving Monday Morning News Kick Off from the ITAC blog. Now that we have all come back from a restful holiday break, it’s time to crank up the identity theft, data breach and cyber security news cycle. And, as always, there is no shortage of news. Oh, and for all of [...]