2020 Pwnie Award Winners

Best Client-Side Bug

RCE on Samsung Phones via MMS

Best Cryptographic Attack

Zerologon

Best Privilege Escalation Bug

checkm8 – Epic JailBreak

Best Server-Side Bug

BraveStarr – A Fedora 31 netkit telnetd remote exploit

Best Song

Lady Ada – Powertrace (Pokerface Song Parody / PLATYPUS Paper Teaser)

Epic Achievement

Guang Gong

Lamest Vendor Response

Daniel J. Bernstein

Most Epic Fail

Microsoft

Most Innovative Research

TRRespass: When Memory Vendors Tell You Their Chips Are Rowhammer-free, They Are Not.

Most Under-Hyped Research

Vulnerabilities in System Management Mode (SMM) and Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)