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Sony Wins 'Epic Fail' Honors At Pwnie Awards

Posted by Soulskill on from the reasonable-chance-of-defending-their-title-too dept.

hypnosec writes "Hackers' favorite recent target, Sony, has won an award at the Black Hat conference held in Las Vegas this week. However, much to the embarrassment of the company, the award it nailed was in the category of 'Epic Fail' of the year. The Pwnie awards, which are like Oscar equivalents in the hacker community, gave this 'honor' to Sony following the series of cyberattacks it was subjected to a few months back, which saw the company's PlayStation and PC gaming networks go down, as well as many other services suffering heavily."

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  1. Re:Sony says: by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Something tells me there aren't too many Sony executives who know or care about the Pwnies. Methinks the submitter is a bit overenthusiastic in suggesting the company is embarrassed about the award itself.

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  2. Re:ugh sony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why?

  3. Re:Sony says: by PRMan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For a Japanese company, that's pretty serious.

    They used to fall on their swords, so I'm going to have to disagree with you...

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