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 annual ceremony will take place during the virtual Blackhat 2020 conference.

awards offered

In 2020, there will be 11 award categories:

Pwnie for Best Server-Side Bug Pwnie for Best Client-Side Bug Pwnie for Best Privilege Escalation Bug Pwnie for Best Cryptographic Attack Pwnie for Most Innovative Research Pwnie For Lamest Vendor Response Pwnie For Most Over-Hyped Bug Pwnie for Most Epic Fail Pwnie for Most Under-hyped Research Pwnie for Epic Achievement Pwnie for Best Song (you were dearly missed)

nominations

The Pwnie Awards will accept nominations for bugs disclosed over the last year, from June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020.

The top five nominees in each category will be announced on the website and the judges will gather at an undisclosed location to vote on the winners. The judges are of course disqualified from winning any Pwnie awards.

judges

The Pwnie Award nominations will be judged by a panel of respected security researchers - the closest to a jury of peers a hacker is likely to ever get.

sponsors

The Pwnie Awards thank BlackHat for providing a venue for the awards ceremony. Please inquire below for other sponsorship opportunities, but keep in mind that sponsoring the awards will have no influence of the judges, but we will gladly take your money and spend it on things that we shouldn’t.

contact us

To contact the Pwnie Awards organizers, email us at [email protected]