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Pwnie Award winners 2009
The winners of the “prestigious” Pwnie Awards were announced last Saturday at Black Hat USA. The honored recipients are: Best Server-Side Bug: Linux SCTP FWD Chunk Memory Corruption (CVE-2009-0065) Best Privilege Escalation Bug: Linux udev Netlink Message Privilege Escalation (CVE-2009-1185) Best Client-Side Bug: msvidctl.dll MPEG2TuneRequest Stack buffer overflow (CVE-2008-0015) Mass 0wnage: Red Hat Networks Backdoored [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Pwnie Award nominations close July 15
The Pwnie Awards are back this year… and there are just two more days to submit your nominations. The awards started in 2007 as a more than slightly irreverent recognition of “the best” in information security for the previous year. For The 2009 award categories are: Best Server-Side Bug Best Client-Side Bug Mass 0wnage Most [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Pwnie Award nominees are out
The first annual Pwnie Awards have now published their list of nominees for 2007 and will be presenting the awards today at Blackhat Las Vegas. This extremely irreverent award was announced in July by security researcher Alexander Sotirov with the awards in the following categories: Best Server-Side Bug Best Client-Side Bug Mass 0wnage Most Innovative [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Incredible statement
We’ve all seen examples of really stupid security thinking, but I’m betting this is a joke… "We’re going to buy Mac Minis and run Windows on them because Macs aren’t affected by these security problems." Read the whole thing here: DeadBeefCafe Incredible statement.
Read the rest of this entry...Give us all your money
Phishers just aren’t trying as hard as they used to: check out giveusallyourmoney.com (via Security Curve weblog) Though the site is (I hope) a joke, when you press the submit button it takes you to a page “taketheirmoney.php” which right now spits out a nice PHP error message about not being able to open file [...]
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