Nominierungen für die Pwnie Awards 2011

[Kitara]

Wer hätte das gedacht ... Der Gewinner in der Kategorie des Most Epic Fail steht schon vorher fest ... Sony "owned" sie alle.

The Pwnie Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community.
The awards are given out once an year. The fifth annual ceremony will take place on Aug 3rd, 2011 in Las Vegas at the BlackHat USA security conference.

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Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL

Sometimes giving 110% just makes your FAIL that much more epic. And what use would the Internet be if it wasn't there to document this FAIL for all time?
This award is to honor a person or company's spectacularly epic FAIL. And the nominees are:

• Sony
  After Fail0verflow and GeoHot published how to jailbreak the PS3, Sony got a bit miffed. Apparently unfamiliar with how the Internet works and how difficult it is to remove the piss from a swimming pool, Sony proceeded to try erase the information from the Internet and sue GeoHot et al. into oblivion. Needless to say, this was about as successful as the MiniDisc.
• Sony
  Speaking of piss in a swimming pool, that just happened to be how well Sony protected their Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users' account info and roughly 25 to 77 million account details were stolen by unknown hackers. That metaphor makes just about no sense at all, but you get the point: FAIL.
• Sony
  Sony is definitely good at one thing: keeping the hits coming and their fans entertained. Oh wait, did we say Sony? We meant LulzSec. I guess that counts as another FAIL for Sony.
• Sony
  After learning the hard way that their PlayStation Network was about as porous as air, Sony had to shut it down for over two months to rebuild it from scratch. In doing so, they made everyone from your 8-year old cousin to your barber learn about the importance of security. Hooray for us, sorry Sony shareholders.
• Sony
  Noticing a pattern here? But wait, it gets better. Sony might have been able to better repel the multitude of attacks if they hadn't just recently laid off a significant number of their network security team. Great timing, guys.

 

[Iverior]

AW: Nominierungen für die Pwnie Awards 2011

Auch schön: Die Nominees des Pwnie for Epic 0wnage.
Anonymous vs. HB Gary Federal fand ich höchst amüsant, LulzSec vs. everything war tatsächlich "Epic 0wnage", hat aber meinen Humor deutlich verfehlt.