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by prashantrajan 2y ago
Financial apps like Coinbase, Venmo, and Cash App require weak 4-digit PINs alongside biometric authentication, creating significant security risks. If Face ID or Touch ID fails, these apps fall back to the weak PIN instead of your username
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How Popular Financial Apps Are Failing Your Security (Coinbase, Venmo, Cash App)(techdev.prashantrajan.com)
3 points by prashantrajan 2y ago|2 comments
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by prashantrajan 5y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29644630
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by prashantrajan 5y ago
It's infuriating that they pushed out this breaking change late on a Friday, screwing over their customers and all our enterprise account managers are now conveniently out on their holiday break. 5 days later and they are still "i
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AWS injected bad code into customer run Java apps(github.com)
16 points by prashantrajan 5y ago|2 comments
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by prashantrajan 5y ago
AWS decided it was a good idea to push out a "security" patch late on a Friday (Dec 17) without advance warning that monkey patched running customer owned Java code. The patch is auto applied on Amazon Linux AMIs at boot time sin
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by prashantrajan 14y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Oversight on my part. Originally I thought that permission was required to be able to add a future star/unstar functionality from GitStars but turns out that is not required.
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by prashantrajan 14y ago
Just released a simple web tool, GitStars ( http://www.gitstars.com ) to help make the act of starring repositories on GitHub infinitely more useful. When you log into GitStars, your starred GitHub repositories are fetched and automatically
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Show HN: GitStars - A better way to organize your GitHub starred repositories(gitstars.com)
5 points by prashantrajan 14y ago|4 comments
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Top Internet venture capital firms interactive catalogue(business.me)
1 points by prashantrajan 14y ago|0 comments