Pwnie Awards Nominees in 2011 Include Sony, Anonymous, LulzSec, WikiLeaks

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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.

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