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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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2015, @08:53PM
The Free Software Foundation tells [fsf.org] us that "AMD chipsets do not contain anything like AMT. Note, however, that there are other comparable problems in hardware from both Intel and AMD." There's a laptop they recommend [soylentnews.org]; it sounds like the purveyor faced great difficulty [fsf.org] in removing the spyware from the BIOS.
AMD has been participating in the development of standards for remote managemhttp://www.dmtf.org/standards/smashent called DASH [dmtf.org] (for desktop and mobile computers) and SMASH [dmtf.org] (for servers). The specifications, at least, are supposedly open.