The Pwnie Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community.The awards are given out once an year. The fifth annual ceremony will take place on Aug 3rd, 2011 in Las Vegas at the BlackHat USA security conference.
Award categories
In 2011 there will be nine award categories:
- Pwnie for Best Server-Side Bug
- Pwnie for Best Client-Side Bug
- Pwnie for Best Privilege Escalation Bug
- Pwnie for Most Innovative Research
- Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response
- Pwnie for Best Song
- Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL
- Pwnie for Lifetime Achievement
- Pwnie for Epic Ownage
You Can Read All The Nominations here
Anonymous , LulzSec and Stuxnet Have Their Names in Pwnie for Epic Ownage
Anonymous for hacking HBGary
If you have a externally-facing crappy custom CMS where you use the same password as your Google Apps administrator account, you probably don't want to go picking fights with any one hacker, let alone an angry swarm of them. As it turns out, HBGary did just that, and Anonymous delivered exactly 1.21 giga-owws to them.
LulzSec for hacking everyone
LulzSec provided many Lulz for all the hackers and security professionals around the world. They have attacked Fox News, PBS, Nintendo, pron.com, the NHS, Infraguard, the US senate, Bethesda, Minecraft, League of Legends, The Escapist magazine, EVE online, the CIA, The Times, The Sun; all the while generating a media fiasco and evading law enforcement.
Stuxnet
How many centrifuges did your rootkit destroy? How many national nuclear programs did your worm disrupt? How many 0day exploits and rootkits for equipment that no one you has ever heard of have you written? Exactly.
Via- pwnies.com
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