Vista Equity Partners to Acquire Security Awareness Training Firm KnowBe4 for $4.6B

Security awareness training company KnowBe4 will go private after being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for roughly $4.6 billion in cash.
KnowBe4 first announced receiving an offer from the private equity firm in mid-September.
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ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens, Schneider Electric Release 19 New Security Advisories

Industrial giants Siemens and Schneider Electric have released a total of 19 security advisories for the October 2022 Patch Tuesday. The advisories cover 36 vulnerabilities affecting their ICS products.
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Siemens Not Ruling Out Future Attacks Exploiting Global Private Keys for PLC Hacking

Researchers have demonstrated that threat actors could obtain global private keys that protect some of Siemens’ industrial devices, and the vendor says it cannot rule out malicious exploitation in the future.
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Several Horner PLC Software Vulnerabilities Allow Code Execution via Malicious Font Files

A cybersecurity researcher has discovered a total of seven high-severity remote code execution vulnerabilities in Horner Automation’s Cscape product and they can all be exploited using malicious font files.
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