http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Pwnie-Awards-in-2011-Include-Sony-Anonymous-LulzSec-WikiLeaks-113818/ By Fahmida Y. Rashid eWEEK.com 2011-08-02 The nominations for the 2011 Pwnie Awards at Black Hat recognizes Sony for its sheer incompetence at security, and Anonymous, LulzSec and WikiLeaks for cyber-mayhem. Security professionals heading to Black Hat can look forward to the Pwnie Awards, the hacker version of the Academy Awards, this week. The winners of the Pwnie Awards will be announced Aug. 3 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Instead of little Oscars, award recipients receive gold-painted My Little Pony statuettes, a nod to the fact that "Pwnies" is pronounced "ponies." The hacking slang term "pwned" means "owned" or controlled by a hacker. The Pwnies celebrate superior security skills and catastrophic security incompetence of security researchers and the community over the past year, according to the Pwnie Awards Website. The various categories recognize individuals, businesses, malware and its discoverers that have dominated security headlines from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2011, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 30-Aug 4, offering over 60 training sessions and 9 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit: http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Wed Aug 03 2011 - 02:48:37 PDT
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