This Guy Builds A Thor-Like Hammer that Only He Can Pick Up

If you have watched the most recent Avengers movie, then you would be aware of a scene where all the superheroes Iron Man, War Machine, Hawkeye, and Captain America take turns to lift Thor’s hammer but fail.



Someone has an explanation, Why?



Inspired by Thor's legendary hammer Mjolnir that is not liftable by anyone except Thor, an electrical engineer has built a real-life Mjolnir that

5.6 Million Federal Employees' Fingerprints Stolen in OPM Hack

The OPM Data Breach (Office of Personnel Management) is getting even worse than we thought.



We already know more than 21 Million current and former federal employees had their personal and highly sensitive private information hijacked in a massive data breach that affected Defense Department's OPM.



But, now it has been revealed that the hackers have made off a lot more than just names,

Contactless Fingerprint Scanner That Can Capture Your Prints from Meters Away

Until today, there existed such Fingerprint Biometric Readers that required your touch to authenticate yourself as an authorized person.
However, the latest research shows that the future of fingerprint scanners lies in a "no-touch" activity by an individual for gaining access.
Recently, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has funded a number of startup and companies to develop

Hackers Can Remotely Steal Fingerprints From Android Phones

Over a year ago I wrote an article on The Hacker News that warned of serious security concerns created by the iPhone and Android’s Fingerprint authentication.



Till now hackers were impersonated simply by lifting prints off the side of a phone and gaining unauthorized access to user's phone and thus data.



However, security researchers have now discovered four new ways to attack Android

Hacker Finds a Simple Way to Fool IRIS Biometric Security Systems

Biometric security systems that involve person's unique identification (ID), such as Retinal, IRIS, Fingerprint or DNA, are still evolving to change our lives for the better even though the biometric scanning technology still has many concerns such as information privacy, and physical privacy.



In past years, Fingerprint security system, which is widely used in different applications such