Sunday, August 5, 2007

Grammy for "security"

There is a "Grammy" type of award for the Security Community. It is 'The Pwnie Award', an annual award ceremony celebrating the achivements and failures of security community.

Here are the list of awards:
- Best Server-Side Bug
- Best Client-Side Bug
- Mass 0wnage
- Most Innovative Research
- Lamest Vendor Response
- Most Overhyped Bug
- Best Song

The panel of judges comprised of some famous Security individuals
- Dave G
- Mark Dowd
- Dino Dai Zovi
- HD Moore
- Dave Aitel
- Halvar Flake
- Alexander Sotirov

For more details on this award, http://pwnie-awards.org/

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