Stuxnet, RSA and Sony scoop pwnie awards
The winners of the pwnie awards were announced last night at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada. A total of nine awards were due to be presented in categories including most innovative research, most epic fail and ‘lamest vendor response'.
It was Sony who stole the show, with all five pwnie nominations for ‘most epic fail' scooping awards. The wins were for erasing PS3 jailbreak information after it was published online, failing to protect between 25 to 77 million user account details, LulzSec's ‘sownage' campaign, shutting down their PlayStation Network and laying off a significant number of its network security team.
The pwnie for epic 0wnage, given to the hackers responsible for delivering the ‘most damaging, widely publicised or hilarious 0wnage', went to Stuxnet. The pwnies said: “How many centrifuges did your rootkit destroy? How many national nuclear programs did your worm disrupt? How many zero-day exploits and rootkits for equipment, that no one you have ever heard of, have you written? Exactly.”
