2008 Pwnie Award Winners
Via The 2008 Pwnie Award Page.
- Best Server-Side Bug: Ryan Smith and Alex Wheeler (Windows IGMP kernel vulnerability discovery)
- Best Client-Side Bug: Nate McFeters, Rob Carter, and Billy Rios (Multiple URL protocol handling flaws)
- Mass 0wnage: For the mass of Wordpress vulnerabilities found this past year (and anyone who found them)
- Most Innovative Research: Cold Boot attacks on disk encryption keys (Princeton researchers)
- Lamest Vendor Response: McAfee, for its reaction to the over 60 Websites classified as "Hacker Safe" by its ScanAlert service that were found to be XSS-vulnerable -- including the ScanAlert Website itself.
- Most Overhyped Bug: Dan Kaminsky's Unspecified DNS cache poisoning vulnerability.
- Best Song: "Packing the K!" Kaspersky Lab
- Most Epic FAIL: Debian, for shipping a backdoored OpenSSL library for two years
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Tim Newsham
More here.
posted by Fergie @ 8/08/2008 10:31:00 AM
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