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Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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Hey! As a 46 year old I am offended by this - I am definitely not Gen X. We’re a weird X/Millenial hybrid I’ve seen referred to as Xennials. Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.

ngl as a 45 y.o. Gen Y i was not so surprised to read what stupid things 46 y.o. Gen X do

Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

People on the borderlines often are overlooked. I'm an old GenX, a few years too young to be a Boomer, and even the younger Boomers grew up with a quite different experience than the mainline Boomer generation. And I was already an adult and married by the main part of the GenX era.

Dividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.

Duodecades are superior to decades, and we can take overlapping pairs of duodecades as "generations" to solve the dividing line problem.

Duodecades:

  * 1968-1980
  * 1980-1992
  * 1992-2004
  * 2004-2016
  * 2016-2028
Overlapping generations:

  * GenX: 1968-1992
  * Millennial: 1980-2004
  * GenZ: 1992-2016

Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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post #2

Hey! As a 46 year old I am offended by this - I am definitely not Gen X. We’re a weird X/Millenial hybrid I’ve seen referred to as Xennials. Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.

you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.

But also:

> Xennials, also called Xillenials, are a social cohort encompassing people born on the cusp of or during the later years of Generation X and the early years of the Millennials generation.

> Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983, though some extend this further in either direction. Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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The article is unclear: Do they "attack" the GenX managers and encrypt their stuff, or do they simply contact GenX managers in order to get paid faster?

In that case, the managers aren't "victims" and aren't "attacked", that would be the company..

Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.

But also: > Xennials, also called Xillenials, are a social cohort encompassing people born on the cusp of or during the later years of Generation X and the early years of the Millennials generation. > Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983, though some extend this further in either direction. Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. https://…

Depends a lot on your background. I was online in 1994 as a kid, but my peers weren’t until nearer 1999. Same age. We all got mobile phones when we went to university in sep 2000

Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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post #2

Hey! As a 46 year old I am offended by this - I am definitely not Gen X. We’re a weird X/Millenial hybrid I’ve seen referred to as Xennials. Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.

Impressive how many people posting here love the gen [XYZ] categories and feel offended when they are not put in the correctly labeled drawer. ...Shouldn't we move on from this and obsess about something more fun?

Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

People on the borderlines often are overlooked. I'm an old GenX, a few years too young to be a Boomer, and even the younger Boomers grew up with a quite different experience than the mainline Boomer generation. And I was already an adult and married by the main part of the GenX era.

Dividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.

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Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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The article is unclear: Do they "attack" the GenX managers and encrypt their stuff, or do they simply contact GenX managers in order to get paid faster? In that case, the managers aren't "victims" and aren't "attacked", that would be the company..

If the article was written by an actual human, we may have had the answer. Instead, we got this non-sense

> By the time the ransom note lands, the crooks may already know who approves invoices, who signs contracts, who runs HR, and who reports to whom. The encryption is just the bit that victims notice.

Re: Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

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Hey! As a 46 year old I am offended by this - I am definitely not Gen X. We’re a weird X/Millenial hybrid I’ve seen referred to as Xennials. Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.

I believe the term is xennial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

Rare and intersectionally have an unfair advantage.

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