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Pwnie Awards 2013 Winners: Barnaby Jack, Edward Snowden, Hakin9, Evad3rs
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."
Nmap didn't get the Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL. The Pwnie was awarded to Hackin9, which accepted and published an autogenerated article called "Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful - DARPA Inference Cheking Kludge Scanning". Publishing bullshit without reading, questioning or understanding, now where have I seen that before? You fucking morons.
Hakin9 is a magazine that's not exactly too reputable.
It looks like someone took a paper "written" using SciGen and submitted it to them. Because they didn't read the paper at all, they didn't notice it was absolute bullshit courtesy of finest context-free grammars people could code.
Brilliant work - not only is SciGen great for busting less than reputable scientific publications that don't exactly value this "peer review" thing, but now it has busted security magazines too.
I was wondering that too. Turns out nmap didn't get the epic fail award:
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/1050
Fucking hilarious in its own right, but even better considering the purpose of the joke paper was to point out the shortcomings of the journal's review process, and then /. frontpages a misquoted blurb about the paper.
Indeed. I just finished following the breadcrumbs to this, and the joke paper is amazingly well done.
NMAP didn't get an epic fail. Hackin9 magazine got butt0wned by the nmap guys
Gold:
"NMAP requires root access in order to allow B-trees."
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Turns out they took the award from Hackin9 and gave it to Slashdot for their beautifully ironic quality of editing.
In Soviet Russia, dot slashes YOU!
It wasn't. As others have said the guy who writes the Parity News spam blog is simply an idiot. Slashdot should really stop providing that site with pages hits since it's simply a site that regurgitates other articles and does so poorly.
"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
"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"."
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
No. That is Pwn2Own.