Contest celebrating the best and worst in information security celebrates its 10th year.

Steve Zurier, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

August 22, 2016

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The PWNIE Awards turned 10 years old this year and perhaps the most surprising thing was that nobody won for Epic Fail for 2016. Could it be that it was just too hard to top the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack of last year? 

Hard to say, but the award winners this year range from the best in security research out of the IEEE to the whimsy of the Best Song category.

Here's a look at this year’s winners as well as links to their research.

About the Author(s)

Steve Zurier

Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

Steve Zurier has more than 30 years of journalism and publishing experience and has covered networking, security, and IT as a writer and editor since 1992. Steve is based in Columbia, Md.

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