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Cyber security experts from Chinese Internet giant Tencent and 360 Enterprise Security Group have been nominated at this year’s Pwnie Awards – dubbed the “Hackers’ Oscars.”

A team of experts from 360 Security and three experts from the United Security Lab of Tencent reportedly are the only nominees from Asia at this year’s Pwnie Awards. Another eight scientists from the lab were also recognized by the Microsoft Security Response Center for their white hacking skills.

He Qidan and Liu Gengming from Tencent were nominated for Best Client-Side Bug, which is awarded to “researchers who discovered or exploited the most technically sophisticated and interesting client-side bug.”

The 360 security team and Tencent’s Liu Ke were nominated for Epic Achievement, which honors “researchers, attackers, defenders, executives, journalists, nobodies, randos, or trolls for pulling off something so truly epic that we couldn’t possibly have predicted it by creating an award category that did it justice.”

Specifically, Liu found nearly 150 vulnerabilities in the world’s most popular PDF readers, including Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, and Google Chrome, according to the official website.

The Pwnie Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community. It is regarded as a great honor for security workers to receive or to be nominated for an award. This year’s ceremony was held on July 26 in the U.S. state of Las Vegas at BlackHat USA security conference. 
 

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