http://pwnie-awards.org/2008/
About the awards
The Pwnie Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community. It is also very, very funny.
The awards are given out once an year. The second annual ceremony will take place in August 2008 in Las Vegas at the BlackHat USA security conference.
Award categories
In 2008 there are going to be nine award categories:
- Pwnie for Best Server-Side Bug
- Pwnie for Best Client-Side Bug
- Pwnie for Mass 0wnage
- Pwnie for Most Innovative Research
- Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response
- Pwnie for Most Overhyped Bug
- Pwnie for Best Song
- Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL (new for 2008)
- Pwnie for Lifetime Achievement (new for 2008)
Nominations
The Pwnie Awards will accept nominations for bugs disclosed over the last year, from June 1, 2007 to May 31, 2008.
Nominations will be accepted from June 16 until July 14. The top five nominees in each category will be announced on the website and the judges will gather at an undisclosed location to vote on the winners. The judges are disqualified from winning any Pwnie awards.
Judges
The Pwnie Award nominations will be judged by a panel of respected security researchers - the closest to a jury of peers a hacker is likely to ever get.
- Dave G
- Mark Dowd
- Dino Dai Zovi
- HD Moore
- Dave Aitel
- Halvar Flake
- Alexander Sotirov
Sponsors
The Pwnie Awards thank Jeff Moss for providing a venue for the awards ceremony at a place where so much of the security community is gathered.
Please enquire below for other sponsorship opportunities, but keep in mind that sponsoring the awards will not save you from winning Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response or Most Epic FAIL if you deserve them.
Contact information
To contact the Pwnie Awards organizers, email us at info@pwnie-awards.org
No spam please :-)
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