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."

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You morons

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:You morons

[Anonymous Coward]

A better way to soothe my anger would be to remove the link to that stupid blog where that moronic statement originated, and to append a correction and an apology towards Nmap.

Nmap didn't fail, Hakin9 did

[WWWWolf]

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.

Re: why was nmap a fail?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

News Flash: Slashdot actually wins Most Epic FAIL

[Cyfun]

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!

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

"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"."