Pwnie Awards Handed Out, (Most) Winners Cover Face In Shame
Pwnie Awards Handed Out, (Most) Winners Cover Face In Shame
Posted 08/05/2011 at 11:57am
| by Brad Chacos
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The Black Hat conference is a great place to go if you want to learn how to, say, hack an insulin pump or get around the traffic-shaping practices of your ISP. But Black Hat's about more than a sharing of ideas; it's also a time of celebration. Well, maybe not if you're one of the companies who win one of those non-coveted Pwnie awards, but for everybody else, at least. Can you guess who won the Pwnie for the Most Epic Fail of the past year? C'mon, sure you can.
Yeah, you're right. Sony won the award in a landslide! In fact, after watching the PlayStation Network burn down and continue smoldering for close to a month, TG Daily reports that no other company was even up for the award. All five nomination slots went directly to Sony. Unsurprisingly, nobody from Sony stepped forward to claim the award.
They hand out Pwnies for other things, too: Yahoo! News reports that the Iranian nuclear program-halting Stuxnet – which got mentioned in one of our features yesterday – won the Pwnie for Epic Ownage, pulling ahead of a fierce group of nominees that included Anonymous, Lulzsec and Bradley Manning of Wikileaks fame. RSA won the Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response after they told their customers that it wasn't a big deal that their SecurID tokens were compromised. Famous iPhone and PS3 hacker Geohot won the Pwnie for Best Song for the rap he posted on YouTube after finding out he was being sued by Sony. Check it out if you want.
The awards were unveiled on August third; you can check out a more complete list of winners on the Pwnies website.
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jensennhook
August 10, 2011 at 9:54pm
I feel bad for them, seriously. But I kinda expected Sony will bag the grand slam of the night. Nice try..
http://blog.shawcapitalmanagement-news.com/
praack
August 08, 2011 at 8:51am
sorry guys- not a fan of black hat, not a fan of lulz, anon or others. common good- well they stay away from those that can really strike back - so no going after syria, iran, north korea, china or other areas or true conflict.
probably worried that those countries agents would just show up at the doorstep- no warrents needed
so they go after our information - low lying fruit and do high fives
yeah I'm impressed
bowei006
August 07, 2011 at 10:43am
it'd be even more hilarious if someone at sony did come to get it and gave a polite bow like they usually do. :DDDD
Wingzero_x
August 07, 2011 at 10:01am
I nominate MaxPC for not doing anything about all the spam posts!
ABouman
August 08, 2011 at 2:05pm
If by "not doing anything at all" you mean "taking their time every morning and evening to manually delete any spam that has gotten through and constantly hassling an extremely overworked Internet Ops team to find a better solution including a spam report button" then we happily accept your nomination. ; )
Brad Nimbus
August 07, 2011 at 10:27am
lulz, Would they still have this article if they were actually nominated? Hahaha.
The spam wouldn't be such a big deal if it wasn't the same old shit everytime. I couldn't even imagine someone being stupid enough to fall for it in the first place. I remember back in the day a spam post would be a link. Not some dummy who can't speak english using google translate to post some knock off nike crap.
/rant
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