Joanna Rutkowska's blog points to recent paper on a survey of the various problems and attacks presented against the x86 platform over the last 10 years. The paper does not present new exploits but does cover: the BIOS (UEFI) and booting; peripherals; the Intel Management Engine; and several other aspects of x86 insecurity. Some of the problems appear insurmountable as described.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2015, @05:02PM
And instead of solving problems like BIOS malware with a simple jumper, the industry resorts to horribly over-engineered solutions like secureboot.