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Pwnie Award Nominations Announced

The nominations for security industry's 2011 Pwnie Awards have been announced and there are a lot of interesting vulnerabilities being considered for a prize.The Pwnies were founded in 2007 by renowned security researchers Alexander Sotirov and Dino Dai Zovi. The award ceremony is held every year during the Blac...

26 July 2011
12:53 GMT

Sony Is Sole Nominee for 'Most Epic FAIL' Pwnie Award

The winner of the 'Most Epic FAIL' Pwnie award this year will be Sony because the troubled company was the sole nominee in this category.Founded back in 2007 by security researchers Alexander Sotirov and Dino Dai Zovi, the Pwnie Awards are handed out every year at the Black Hat USA security conference.The w...

25 July 2011
13:01 GMT

Jailbreak Artist Comex Nominated for Pwnie Award

iPhone Dev Team member Musclenerd is spreading the word on Twitter that his fellow hacker Comex has just been nominated to a Pwnie Award for Best Client-Side Bug. Notorious for his jailbreaking feats on Apple’s iOS, Comex has been able to produce what is arguably the simplest jailbreak utility using a PDF ex...

25 July 2011
08:01 GMT

2010 Pwnie Award Winners Announced at Black Hat

The winners of the 2010 Pwnie Awards were announced yesterday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. There were only seven categories this year and one of the most popular awards, the “Most Epic FAIL” one, went to Internet Explorer 8 for a bug in its XSS protection component, which actually en...

29 July 2010
06:15 GMT


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