Pwnie Awards 2013 Winners: Barnaby Jack, Edward Snowden, Hakin9, Evad3rs 41
hypnosec writes "Winners of the Pwnie Awards 2013 were announced at a special event during the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The highlight of the awards were Edward Snowden, Hakin9 and Barnaby Jack. Barnaby Jack was given posthumous Pwnie award for 'lifetime achievement' while Edward Snowden and the NSA were jointly given the award of 'Epic 0wnage'. Hakin9 on the other hand was awarded 'Most Epic FAIL'. Best Privilege Escalation Bug award went to David Wang aka planetbeing and the Evad3rs team."
Re:Etymology of Pwned and Pwnie (Score:3, Funny)
Long, long ago in the murky and misty history of the early internet, a young script kiddie, (most likely with an overinflated ego), tragically mistyped "Owned", probably due to having excessively greasy fingers, as is common with many basement-dwelling connoisseurs of junk-food.
Instead of "Owning" his opponent, he "Pwned" himself!
Word spread rapidly, generating much mirth in the community, and a meme was born.
News Flash: Slashdot actually wins Most Epic FAIL (Score:5, Funny)
Turns out they took the award from Hackin9 and gave it to Slashdot for their beautifully ironic quality of editing.
NMAP didn't get EPIC FAIL! (Score:5, Funny)
"Hacking9 Magazine" got Epic Fail award, for an article called: "Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful - DARPA Inference Cheking Kludge Scanning"
It was a spoof paper, written to expose the CRAP editorial policy at Hacking9.
They were PWN3D by a whitepaper...
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/1050 [seclists.org]
"They clearly chose that title so just so they could refer to it as DICKS throughout the paper. There is even an ASCII penis in the "sample output" section, but apparently none of this raised any flags from Hakin9's "review board"."