Lawmakers advance cyber bills aimed at open-source, satellite vulnerabilities

The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday easily advanced legislation to ensure the federal government and critical infrastructure can tap open-source software securely. The panel approved by voice vote bipartisan legislation to require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop a risk framework laying out how the federal government relies on open-source code.

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