The winners of the 2010 Pwnie Awards were announced yesterday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. There were only seven categories this year and one of the most popular awards, the “Most Epic FAIL” one, went to Internet Explorer 8 for a bug in its XSS protection component, which actually enabled XSS attacks. The Pwnie Awards were founded back in 2007 by Alexander Sotirov and Dino Dai Zovi, who still serve as judges along with other reputed security researchers like HD Moore, Mark Dowd, Halvar Flake, Dave Goldsmith and Dave Aitel. Each year, the panel aims to award both security successes and failures.

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