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• CISA Secure by Design Alert Urges Manufacturers to Eliminate Default Passwords

  15-12-2023 13:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA published guidance on How Manufacturers Can Protect Customers by Eliminating Default Passwords as a part of our new Secure by Design (SbD) Alert series.
  This SbD Alert urges technology manufacturers to proactively eliminate the risk of default password exploitation by implementing principles one and three of the joint guidance, Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Secure by Design Software:
  Take ownership of customer security outcomes.
  Build organ
  
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• CISA Releases Advisory on Cyber Resilience for the HPH Sector

  15-12-2023 13:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA released a Cybersecurity Advisory, Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from the CISA Healthcare and Public Health Sector Risk and Vulnerability Assessment, that details findings from our risk and vulnerability assessments of a Health and Public Health (HPH) Sector organization.
  CISA encourages all critical infrastructure organizations as well as software manufacturers to review the advisory and apply recommendations. The recommendations detail how organizations can harden netwo
  
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• Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Morning Sickness To Hormone Made By Fetus

  15-12-2023 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Scientists have pinpointed the cause of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, "finding that the severity of illness is influenced by how much of a hormone called GDF15 the growing fetus makes," reports Science Magazine. The findings have been published in the journal Nature. From the report: GDF15 is present in the blood of nonpregnant people and is known to be associated with nausea; it's also been tested as a weight loss aid because of its tendency to suppress appetite. Levels of the hormone rise
  
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