Foehammer’s Anvil

I received the following email from Protest Warrior today. Be sure to visit their site and support their efforts, but also go to the site of their new nemesis and make sure you email Jeremy Hammond your thoughts. I did. “Rot in jail, traitor.” Read on:

Using the hacker recruiting ground www.hackthissite.org, Jeremy Hammond put together and led a team of politically motivated “hacktivists” to probe the ProtestWarrior server for months until an exploit was found. When an obscure vulnerability was discovered in the PW server’s newsletter subscription code, they managed to upload malicious files that gave them the ability to execute commands on the server.