CrowdStrike accepted a ‘Most Epic Fail’ award at Def Con hacking conference

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CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas personally accepted a “Most Epic Fail” award over the weekend at the annual Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference for the company’s software update that caused a global IT outage last month. While accepting the award, he said it was “super important to own it when you do things horribly wrong, which we did in this case.”

The Pwnie Awards, given out in an annual ceremony at Def Con, celebrate “the achievements (and failures) of security researchers and the security community.” This year’s categories included awards for mobile, desktop, and crypto bugs, one for “Lamest Vendor Response,” and an “Epic Achievement” award for researchers who discovered critical vulnerabilities.

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