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

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-the-40-something-it-manager/5284499
24•joebuckwilliams•1h ago

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theseanz•23m ago
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.

SoftTalker•18m ago
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.
ourmandave•11m ago
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.
zetsurin•10m ago
you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.
Lucasoato•16m ago
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.
calgoo•8m ago
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.
neilv•14m ago
> 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.

SoftTalker•11m ago
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?
calgoo•6m ago
So why is this only a threat to US companies and not for businesses in other parts of the world?

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https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
114•laurentiurad•1h ago•60 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
462•satvikpendem•7h ago•213 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

96•david927•3h ago•371 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
61•hexomancer•3h ago•39 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
112•Klaster_1•6h ago•21 comments

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

https://github.com/yegors/deGDID
7•campuscodi•31m ago•2 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
98•Kiboneu•6h ago•51 comments

Crickets as Pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
54•Michelangelo11•4d ago•29 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
15•tintinnabula•3d ago•2 comments

Saying No

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/19
64•rozumem•1h ago•53 comments

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

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-t...
30•joebuckwilliams•1h ago•10 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
87•Rochus•7h ago•16 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
119•ike_usawa•9h ago•113 comments

If experience is the goal, then you always win

https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/if-experience-is-the-goal-then-you
33•jger15•1h ago•5 comments

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compilers-disagree-about-utf8
7•rbanffy•4d ago•1 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
172•gukoff•13h ago•24 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
49•shayonj•5h ago•17 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
92•tremguy•8h ago•77 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
36•eighttrigrams•5h ago•8 comments

Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/business/energy-environment/plug-in-balcony-solar.html
41•bookofjoe•1h ago•23 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...
92•f-serif•4h ago•60 comments

Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/09/poland-now-sixth-largest-eu-economy-ahead-of-switzer...
22•andrewstetsenko•24m ago•17 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
152•BruceEel•15h ago•64 comments

A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite

https://github.com/nsrht/time-travel-sqlite-debugger
16•thunderbong•1h ago•2 comments

Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981
164•iamnothere•5h ago•75 comments

Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions

https://github.com/nMaroulis/protolink/tree/main/examples/ai_courtroom
10•nmaroulis21•3h ago•0 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
157•Thorondor•5h ago•49 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
69•Lammy•10h ago•55 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
24•ijustlovemath•6h ago•2 comments

UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account

https://unyolo.io/
10•hosolmaz•4h ago•0 comments