The updated newsletter for 2024 highlights changes to retirement and welfare plans, instructions relating to the “gag order” attestation for group health plans, a summary of the DOL’s proposed rule on investment advice fiduciaries, and updates to HIPAA and data privacy laws for employers and plan sponsors. It advises employers on ensuring compliance with new transparency rules, retirement plan limits, fiduciary obligations, and managing data privacy.
Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
Security firm ESET has found the first known example of a Linux UEFI bootkit, a type of malware that infects the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.