Showing posts with label banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banks. Show all posts
10 February 2013

Banking Equipment Vendor Tries To Censor Security Research With DMCA Notice -- Then Backs Down When Called Out For It

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Abuse of the DMCA takedown process to remove material that is awkward or embarrassing for a company is a common enough topic on Techdirt....
05 October 2011

New UK Banknote Celebrates James Watt, Patent Bully and Monopolist

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As do many nations, England likes to put images of its great and good on banknotes. In a somewhat quixotic attempt to stem the decline of ...
28 March 2009

Phished by Visa

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This is utterly scandalous : Not content with destroying the world’s economies, the banking industry is also bent on ruining us individually...
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22 March 2009

Why Barclays Are Barking

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The little brouhaha concerning the Guardian and Barclays Bank is a wonderful object lesson in how the Internet changes everything. Once t...
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04 November 2008

Banking on Imaginary Assets

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Haven't banks learned * anything *? In 2006, the Bank of Communications Beijing Branch began offering loans to Chinese SMEs secured agai...
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24 October 2008

Verified by Visa - As Valueless

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I, too, have noticed the insidious spread of Verified by Visa (VbyV), and thought it looked well dodgy, but I couldn't quite put my fing...
07 October 2008

You Can Bank on It

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Interesting : The ease with which technology allows customers to move their money around by internet or phone has introduced a new financial...
25 February 2008

Madness: ATMs Running Windows XP?

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How stupid can banks get? A white paper by security services company Network Box has said ATM's are less secure because of changes to th...
17 May 2006

P2P Pence

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A clever idea : using P2P networks to connect borrowers and lenders, spreading the costs and risks across a distributed, people-based banki...