Showing posts with label security and fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security and fraud. Show all posts
Saturday, May 02, 2020

Contemplating 75 years of freedom: a dark story on three Dutch lessons never learnt

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First of all I must warn all readers. This is not a happy blogpost. It is not funny. It is a dark and sobering tale of lessons that we shoul...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Zimmermans' relevance for discussions on human rights and ICT-security surveillance

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If we look at economic and social risks of new technologies, outsiders will often immediately fall into the trap of considering this to be...
Thursday, May 09, 2019

FATF and EU need to fundamentally rethink their approach to virtual assets/currencies...

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Virtual currencies are on the radar of regulators for quite some time. Yet it is clear that they still struggle with definitions (which al...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Now that the voting on the PSD is done, the real work starts...

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The second Payments Services Directive, also known as PSD2, will be officially established today. In the plenary session discussion yesterda...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Dutch central bank will strictly supervise banks / payment institutions that deal with virtual currencies (and companies)

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Just one hour ago DNB, the Dutch central bank and bank supervisor, issued a warning on bitcoin . It was not the regular warning or disclaime...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

FCA kicks the Securepay-can down the road...

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In March 2014, the FCA, the prudential supervisor for UK based payment institutions and e-money providers, outlined that it would not be st...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Towards a more flexible approach of authentication

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In July last year, the European Commission published a proposalfor a revised Payment Services Directive (PSD) . The proposal draws on the w...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Outsider ideas in the payment space.... seldom really new..

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One week ago Rabobank Nederland announced that it might de-activate the possibility to use their debit-card outside Europe, in an effort to ...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Digital Money Forum 2012... 15th anniversary and lively as ever

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The Digital Money Forum is an event that this year reached it's 15th anniversary. And a special event it is. My previous visit to the Fo...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Costs of fraud by phishing at banks doubles in 2011

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The Dutch Bankers Association today starts a campaign to increase awareness of consumers that they shouldn't fall for the numerous phis...
Saturday, July 02, 2011

Fed issues rules to debit card interchange...

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After a lot of thinking, the FED issued its rules for debit card interchange . Essentially they've outlined the borders beteen which the...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

And another nice example of attempted internet-fraud....

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It's not always nice to be subject to Internet fraud. Last weekend I heard about a couple that had their hotmail account hacked. And I a...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Bitcoin.... dubious payment mechanism

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Every now and then, Bitcoin keeps on popping up in posts ( including mine ). At first I only looked at the technical bit, but I've come ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Lessons from (Dutch) payment history

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Around the year 2000 I was working on both my historical research about the development of payments in the Netherlands and in the payment p...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Serious trouble for Rabo with DDOS attack

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Yesterday was the day that Rabobank was attacked by a DDOS. It took them more than a day to solve it, and they still warn the public that th...
Monday, May 02, 2011

Ocassional error with pre-paid card: prisoner withdraws half a million euro

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Funny story on nu.nl today . A prisoner who received a pre-paid debit card (ensuring that he would never witdhraw more oney than on his acco...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

History (of e-money) repeats itself... central bank alert on crowd-funding.... and (still) missing the real issues in the market..

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One of the major challenges for central banks and supervisors is to appreciate new technologies and to decide their policy stance on the sub...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Dutch contactless chip (OV Chipkaart) in trouble

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Hello there again. As you can see from the dates on the blog. I have been out for a while, taking a good number of sabattical years off and ...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Hey fool ! Don't become a money mule: unique prevention campaign of Dutch banks

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The Netherlans Bankers' Association has today launched a unique prevention campaign to alert the public not to become a money mule in t...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Skimmers detected this morning

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Nice article in newspaper: attentive customers discovered skimming device on an ING ATM. See also the two foto's: foto 1 foto 2