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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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Post by aaronbrethorst »

SoftTalker wrote: post #3
theseanz wrote: 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.

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.

You might be Generation Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

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

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Post by cannonpr »

rf15 wrote: post #17
theseanz wrote: 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?

The label unless you grew up in the Anglo sphere is also especially meaningless, yet certain people insist in labelling the rest of us :) I got to enjoy Phreaking well into the era most others already had ADSL…

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

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Post by Nasrudith »

calgoo wrote: post #10
neilv wrote: post #5

> Zscaler says they combine information from compromised systems with publicly available data to map reporting lines and identify the employees most likely to influence a company's response. And commercially-available data: enterprise salespeople, for example, can buy this intel from data brokers (directly, or with layered services catering to sales funnels specifically). It's another way that surveillance capitalism…

So why is this only a threat to US companies and not for businesses in other parts of the world?

US consumers are more valuable which makes their data more valuable and therefore collected. It applies to other first world nations without robust enough data protections.

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

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Post by hdgvhicv »

ourmandave wrote: post #6
SoftTalker wrote: post #3

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.

Precise boundaries are clearly problematic but you can’t claim that someone born in the late 60s had the same type of global view that someone born in the late 80s did.

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Post by fryanyway_swe »

ourmandave wrote: post #6
SoftTalker wrote: post #3

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.

The BMI scale is useful. Yes, athletes and bodybuilders it may not be accurate for, but being on HN I think you are neither :)

Currently, I am at 20 BMI, for reference.

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Post by blueflow »

zetsurin wrote: post #8
theseanz wrote: 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.

Can't be really strict with the dates, the generation thing is cultural and depends on the time and environment of your socialisation.

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Post by radarsat1 »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #14
zetsurin wrote: 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://…

> Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.

Pretty bang on description actually. As a 46 yo, sometimes I can't believe I have actual memories of using a rotary phone, or when my family first got a microwave or even VHS recorder. Yet I do. Feels like eons ago.

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

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Post by foco_tubi »

theseanz wrote: 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.

I am definitely more triggered by the mention of ZScaler than the Gen X scope creep

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

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Post by xeromal »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #16
QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah, I grew up in N. GA in a rural area and my family still had a rotary until the mid or late 90s. lol. No internet either
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