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Patrick Drahi The Dealmaker Building A Stake In BT

2022-01-31T18:27:42Z

CarolynEasterlin: Created page with " PARIS, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Here are five facts about Patrick Drahi, the cable magnate who announced on Tuesday he had raised his stake in BT to 18%, becoming the company's..."

PARIS, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Here are five facts about Patrick Drahi, the cable magnate who announced on Tuesday he had raised his stake in BT to 18%, becoming the company's top shareholder and drawing a defensive response from the British government. * Born in Morocco, Drahi, 58, moved to France at the age of 15 and studied at Polytechnique in Paris, one of France's most prestigious higher education institutions. He holds dual French and Israeli citizenship. * In 2001 he created Altice, an Amsterdam-based holding company, and started buying up cable companies in France, Belgium and Portugal through a series of debt-fuelled deals, [http://www.melodyhome.com/category-0/?u=0&q=slowly%20gaining slowly gaining] critical mass. * By 2017, the company was carrying debt of 51 billion euros ($57.7 billion) - five times its core earnings. To ease investor concerns about the sustainability of the business, Drahi spun off the U.S. division, restructured debt and took the European arm private. But Altice's U.S. shares are trading at less than half the $30 price of the 2017 IPO. * Among recent deals, Drahi snapped up art auction house Sotheby's in a deal worth $3.7 billion in 2019. In September this year, [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/ lawyer istanbul] French satellite company Eutelsat rejected his 12.10 euros per share takeover offer. * Drahi's newly created vehicle Altice UK bought a 12.1% stake in BT in June, before raising it to 18% on Tuesday. Altice UK is owned by Next Alt, Drahi's private holding, which also controls SFR, the second largest telecoms operator in France behind Orange. ($1 = 0.8842 euros) (Reporting by Silvia Aloisi; Editing by Susan Fenton)

Meta Formerly Facebook Bans Seven surveillance For Hire Firms

2022-01-31T00:13:36Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> Social media companies are taking action against "surveillance for hire" firms. Graphic by Pixabay; illustration by CNET Meta, formerly known as [/tags/facebook/ Facebook], said Thursday that it banned seven companies that sell software and services that have been used to spy on journalists, human rights activists, politicians and others in more than 100 countries. The firms included Israeli-based Cobwebs Technologies, Cognyte, Black Cube and Bluehawk CI. Meta also took action against an Indian company called BellTroX, the North Macedonian firm Cytrox and [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/ lawyer istanbul] an unknown entity in China, according to a [ report released by Meta's cybersecurity team]. Get the CNET Home newsletter [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=Modernize Modernize] your home with the latest news on smart home products and trends. Delivered Tuesdays and Thursdays. The companies say their services and software are meant to help catch criminals and terrorists, but Meta said that after a months-long investigation the social media giant determined the products were also used to target people outside that group. Some of the tactics included creating fake accounts to search and view people's social media profiles and their list of friends, engaging with people using fictitious personas and tricking users into giving away their account information by getting them to click on malicious links. "The 'surveillance-for-hire' entities we removed and described in this report violated multiple Community Standards and Terms of Service. Given the severity of their violations, we have banned them from our services," the report said. Meta didn't list the customers of the firms but said they included private individuals, law firms and businesses. The move is an example of how tech giants are taking action against companies that sell software and services used for surveillance. In November, [/tech/mobile/apple-sues-nso-group-over-pegasus-spyware/ Apple sued NSO Group], an Israel-based firm that developed spyware known as Pegasus found on the [/topics/phones/products/ phones] of journalists, human rights workers, executives and government workers including at least nine [ US State Department] employees. Meta pulled down about 1,500 accounts on Facebook and its photo service Instagram tied to the seven surveillance-for-hire groups and also issued cease-and-desist warnings. The social media company said it alerted roughly 50,000 people it believes were targeted. The alert says Facebook believes a "sophisticated attacker" may be targeting the person's account and warns users about accepting friend requests from people they don't know or chatting with strangers. Facebook then recommends that users go through their privacy and security settings to make sure their accounts are secure. Facebook has rules against people misrepresenting themselves on the social network to deceive other people, including through fake accounts. The company said law enforcement groups can submit lawful requests for information from the platform. CNET reached out to the companies cited in the report. Black Cube, which called itself a "litigation support firm," said in a statement it "does not undertake any phishing or hacking and does not operate in the cyber world." CobWebs Technologies said in a statement it "operates only according to the law and adheres to strict standards in respect of privacy protection." Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog [https://www.academia.edu/people/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=organization organization] in Canada, released research Thursday that said Ayman Nour, former Egyptian presidential candidate and Egyptian opposition leader, and an Egyptian exiled journalist who wishes to remain anonymous were hacked with Predator spyware created and sold by Cytrox. An email to Cytrox bounced back. [/topics/tech-industry/ Tech Industry] [/tags/hard-news/ Hard News] [/tags/facebook/ Facebook] [/tags/instagram/ Instagram] [/online/cybersecurity/ Notification on Notification off Cybersecurity]

User:CarolynEasterlin

2022-01-31T00:13:33Z

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