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> Anonymous, Lulzsec, Manning and Stuxnet are up for the Pwnie award
> Epic lulz expected at best awards evah By Inquirer Staff Tue Jul 26
> 2011, 14:00 THE COMPUTER SECURITY INDUSTRY'S Pwnie Awards ceremony is
> a week away and the nominations are out. The notorious Lulzsec hacking
> outfit, the Anonymous hacktivist collective, the Stuxnet industrial
> sabotage worm and the alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are all
> up for the 'Epic 0wnage' Pwnie award at Black Hat.
>
> Anonymous was nominated for hacking into HBGary Federal and dumping
> the security firm's emails on the Internet. The widely publicised
> security breach became a PR disaster for both the federal contractor
> and its sister company HBGary, as the emails revealed potentially
> unethical behaviour and offensive cyber security dealings.
>
> According to the Pwnie Awards organizers, Lulzsec is nominated for
> hacking virtually everyone, or better said, anyone. The group's 50-
> day stint left a whole bunch of electronics manufacturers, game
> developers, government agencies, media outlets, and other companies
> embarrassed and scrambling to secure their servers and
> onlineproperties.
>
> Bradley Manning, the US Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking
> hundreds of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, is also
> nominated for the 'Epic 0wnage' Pwnie award. Manning is said to have
> removed the records from the US State Department's secure network on a
> CD labeled Lady Gaga.
>
> The fourth and final nomination in this category is Stuxnet, the
> incredibly complex industrial sabotage worm created to set back Iran's
> nuclear fuel programme. The worm is believed to be directly
> responsible for the destruction of thousands of uranium enrichment
> centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear plant.
>
> "0wnage, measured in owws, can be delivered in mass quantities to a
> single organization or distributed across the wider Internet
> population. The Epic 0wnage award goes to the hackers responsible for
> delivering the most damaging, widely publicized, or hilarious 0wnage,"
> the organisers explain.
>
> The Pwnie Awards were established in 2007 and are handed out every
> year in a ceremony held during the Black Hat USA security conference.
> This year the event will be held on 3 August at Caeser's Palace in Las
> Vegas.
>
> The judging panel is made up of renowned security researchers like
> Dave Goldsmith, Mark Dowd, Dino Dai Zovi, HD Moore, Dave Aitel, Halvar
> Flake, Alexander Sotirov and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann.
>
> There are nine award categories: best server-side bug, best client-
> side bug, best privilege escalation bug, most innovative research,
> lamest vendor response, best song, most epic fail, epic 0wnage and
> lifetime achievement.
>
> The winner of the 2011 'Most Epic FAIL' Pwnie is already known because
> Sony is the sole nominee in that category. In fact, the troubled
> entertainment company has been nominated five times for separate
> security failures.
>
> The 'Lamest Vendor Response' award will be disputed between Novell,
> Magix and RSA Security. However, considering the impact the SecurID
> breach and the company's downplaying of the incident, RSA is the
> odds-on favourite to take home the prize. µ