House Homeland chair pushes for floor vote on open source software bill following supply chain compromise

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) is pressing for a floor vote on his bill directing CISA to establish a framework on open source software risks, following an alert from the agency on malicious code found in a widely used data compression library.

CISA issued an alert on Saturday with the “open source community” recommending developers and users downgrade to an uncompromised version of XZ Utils after Red Hat put out an urgent security alert explaining the...