https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/A-loop-is-malware/m-p/19949#M2368 <P><A href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/japanese-police-charge-13-year-old-girl-for-infinite-javascript-popup-prank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Japanese police have questioned and charged a 13-year-old</A> female student for distributing malicious code online after she linked to the code on an online message board.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>You notice she didn't write it.&nbsp; She linked to it.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>It was written by somebody else.&nbsp; In 2014.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The code?&nbsp; It's an infinite loop that pops up an alert message every time you click OK.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>OK?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I'm not going to link to it, in case I get arrested ...</P> Sat, 09 Mar 2019 23:19:38 GMT rslade 2019-03-09T23:19:38Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/A-loop-is-malware/m-p/19949#M2368 <P><A href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/japanese-police-charge-13-year-old-girl-for-infinite-javascript-popup-prank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Japanese police have questioned and charged a 13-year-old</A> female student for distributing malicious code online after she linked to the code on an online message board.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>You notice she didn't write it.&nbsp; She linked to it.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>It was written by somebody else.&nbsp; In 2014.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The code?&nbsp; It's an infinite loop that pops up an alert message every time you click OK.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>OK?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I'm not going to link to it, in case I get arrested ...</P> Sat, 09 Mar 2019 23:19:38 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/A-loop-is-malware/m-p/19949#M2368 rslade 2019-03-09T23:19:38Z