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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 30 2015, @03:23PM
Thank you for that. I did wade through a lot of verbiage, and still couldn't figure out what she was saying. Your summary helped a lot.
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