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A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner.

Risk managers might be overlooking a critical threat: the impact of technology failures on supply chain general operations, according to a new report from Marsh risk Management Research, Cyber Risks Extend Beyond Data and Privacy Exposures.

Now is not the time to introduce professionalism standards into the rapidly changing and diverse field of cyber security, especially given the current staffing shortages in the field, according to a new report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.

We’re losing the battle against state-sponsored cyber attacks and things are not going to improve any time soon, according to a new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation.  

 Fortune 1,000 firms in the health care, technology and insurance sectors top the list of industry groups most concerned about cyber threats, according to a recent report by Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings.

Black Hat, by its name, seems ominous. What was once a conclave of hackers in 1997 has become a fast-growing global conference series focused on the business of cyber security and includes technical presentations on vulnerabilities and solutions.

 Each minute in 2010 there were 45 new viruses created, 200 new malicious websites established, 180 personal identities stolen, 5,000 new versions of malware created and most importantly, 2 million dollars lost.  

Right now, the bad guys are winning." It’s a bleak statement from Dave Frymier, the CISO for Unisys Corp., but one that many enterprise security executives need to hear.

When it comes to changing the cyber security landscape for the better, there are a number of people, companies, agencies and associations driving both the policy debate and the solution set.