Winnona 💾 Pwnie Awards We're keeping it safe in case Xiaomi ever wants to claim it. Until then, it looks good in our office!

Congratulations to Prof. Evgenios Kornaropoulos (Evgenios Kornaropoulos) and Prof. Giuseppe Ateniese! Their IEEE S&P paper was a finalist in the 2024 Pwnie Awards (Pwnie Awards) for the "Best Cryptographic Attack" category!

I’m SO stoked to finally announce DistrictCon - a new DC hacker conference, bringing together hackers across industries to do cool sh*t 🎉🪩 (Feb 21-22,2025) DistrictCon.org/get-notified

Great news! The Pwnie awards nominations are now open! pwnies.com/nominations/

Submit ALL the cool research! Don’t make the mistake - if nobody submit, it can’t get nominated. You can submit your own research too. Because cool research are expensive and deserve recognization. And, who don’t want a pony?🔥

I wonder if I should nominate Synack for their brilliant move of threatening to sue me in order to prevent the disclosure of a CVE-grade bug. 😬

Historically, the deadline for submitting a Pwnie nomination is always 1 hour before you decided to stop procrastinating and submit! Get em in!

Our research on BitLocker got nominated for not one but TWO Pwnie Awards - “Best Desktop Bug” and “Most Innovative Research”! Happy for the 3rd Pwnie Award nomination in two consecutive years Pwnie Awards !

"Invitation is All You Need!" was nominated for the 🦄 2025 Pwnie Award Pwnie Awards in the most innovative research category. Since the study is all about magic, we asked Albus Dumbledore to brief the Black Hat session for you. Or Yair Stav Cohen Ben Nassi #pwnies

Glad to see that X.509DoS was nominated for the 2025 Pwnie Awards (Pwnie Awards) for Best Cryptographic Attack. Please feel free to check out our USENIX Security paper and website for more details on the work. * Paper: usenix.org/conference/use… * Website: x509dos.com

Oh, the Linux CNA got nominated for a Pwnie Awards with CVE-2025-0927? Well, well..🥸

𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱 was nominated for Pwnie Awards 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵. See how attackers can exploit a standard use of a user to check meetings in Google Gemini App to open his apartment's windows via a Google Calendar invitation

Our MadLicense is nominated for Pwnie Award this year!

What the fuck I'm nominated for best Mobile Bug at this year's Pwnies Yay!

Untangling the Knot (untanglingthekn0t.com) was nominated for Best Cryptographic Attack at the Pwnie Awards 2025. It uncovers fundamental flaws of crypto protocols in mesh Wi-Fi systems. Exploits and summary: untanglingthekn0t.com

Our CVE‑2024‑50264 has been nominated for the Best PE at the Pwnie Awards 🫢

SOON

Good Morning! Hope to see you all at the show! As a reminder: 10AM Track 1 @ DEFCON