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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.

    by theseanz
  • 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.
    by SoftTalker
  • Yeah, by most definitions at least 50% of “40-somethings” are solidly millennial.
    by mikeocool
  • I am definitely more triggered by the mention of ZScaler than the Gen X scope creep
    by foco_tubi
  • I believe the term is xennial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

    Rare and intersectionally have an unfair advantage.

    by j45
  • ngl as a 45 y.o. Gen Y i was not so surprised to read what stupid things 46 y.o. Gen X do
    by croisillon
  • you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.
    by zetsurin
  • 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?
    by rf15
  • Companies hope that training will protect them from cyber threats, while ignoring that their most vulnerable employees are the ones that lost the motivation to care about their job.
    by Lucasoato
  • Training is basically just for legal and insurance reasons... If not there would be no reason to do yearly training of the same bs courses.
    by calgoo
  • > 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 can be a national security threat against the US. You have countless US companies collectively mapping out people networks and assembling often intimate dossiers on individuals... and saving international organized crime and geopolitical adversaries a ton of work, which they might not have the resources to otherwise do.

    by neilv
  • So why is this only a threat to US companies and not for businesses in other parts of the world?
    by calgoo
  • They've learned from how real businesses operate. Ever talked to a salesperson? Notice how much the initial conversation is geared to trying to figure out whether you have any real purchasing authority, and who does if it isn't you?
    by SoftTalker
  • 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..

    by stephbook
  • 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.

    by freehorse