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Move over movie stars and your Oscars, hackers have the Pwnies

posted onJuly 24, 2012
by l33tdawg

Broadway has the Tonys. Hollywood has the Oscars. Sports has the ESPYs. And hackers have the Pwnies.

The sixth-annual Pwnie Awards are scheduled for 6:15 PST on Wednesday as part of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. The offbeat show is billed as an opportunity to crown the achievements of researchers and malware authors, while also relishing in the failures of the inept.

The event will hand out prizes -- winners receive a My Little Pony spray-painted in gold -- across eight categories: Best Client-Side Bug, Best Server-Side Bug, Best Privilege Escalation Bug, Most Innovative Research, Lamest Vendor Response, Best Song, Most Epic FAIL and Epic 0wnage.

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