Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t say: “If you’re over 30, you’re a slow old man”, despite what the internet claims. 
 
 However, on the day the Facebook-founding multi-billionaire turns 30, he may choose to reflect on what he did tell technology entrepreneurs during a speech at Stanford University in 2007. 
 
 “I want to stress the importance of being young and technical,” he said. “Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30? I don’t know. Young people just have simpler lives.” 
 
 Does this mean Zuckerberg, by his own admission, is already past it? 
 
 Probably not - and, anyway, he's already managed to cram plenty of success into his first three decades. He was named Time Person of the Year in 2010; his social network has more than 1.2 billion users; he’s had a Hollywood blockbuster made about him... oh, and he’s worth about $26bn. 
 
 Not bad for a man who wasn't even born when we’d already stopped worrying about what George Orwell warned might happen. 
 
 In pictures: 20 things that will make you feel very, very old 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 1/16 Home Alone is older than any member of One Direction Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone Rex Features 
 
 2/16 Ben - Ross's son in friends - would now be 20 years old. Which would possibly make Ross a grandfather 
 
 3/16 You don't think of Neil Patrick Harris as the sarky one from HIMYM. He's Doogie Howser MD. And always will be 
 
 4/16 The baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind is now a 23-year-old street artist 
 
 5/16 The 'kids' from Jurassic Park are now in their 30s 
 
 6/16 Kids saying they saw a funny little car that looks just like a Mini, but it's smaller. It is a Mini BMW unveiled a more fuel efficient, third-generation version of its iconic Mini, as the world's biggest luxury car maker looks to retain its leadership in the lucrative high-end compact car market PA 
 
 7/16 Margaret Thatcher's election was closer to the Second World War than to the present day Party bursars hope Margaret Thatcher’s image will swell the party coffers Getty 
 
 8/16 World weary Lena Dunham releasing her autobiography in October – at the grand old age of 28 Girls star Lena Dunham says she would rather other women took leading parts Getty Images 
 
 9/16 Remember Bebeto's baby-rocking celebration in 94? That baby, Mattheus Olivera, is now professional footballer 
 
 10/16 It’s a full decade since the final episode of Sex and the City aired 
 
 11/16 Mayim Bialik - the actress who played 90s teen idol Blossom - is now a 38-year-old mother-of-two neuroscientist 
 
 12/16 The Rolling Stones at Glastonbury last year was like young people in 1965 going to hear a band that was big in 1917 
 
 13/16 Most of the Goonies are in their forties 
 
 14/16 Marilyn Monroe would have been 87 if she were still alive Marilyn Monroe Rex Features 
 
 15/16 You know what a Global Hypercolour T-shirt is (and still remember the sweat patches) 
 
 16/16 Homer Simpson is actually now 51 youtube.com 
 
 So if Mark Zuckerberg turning 30 makes you feel old, take a look at the gallery above for a sobering trip down memory lane. ||||| Millennials A Growing Target Of IT Support Scams 
 
 New Microsoft-NCSA study finds that two out of three customers have been exposed to tech support scams in the last 12 months. 
 
 More millennials are falling victim to tech support scams, surpassing senior citizens as the group most frequently tricked by fraudsters. 
 
 This finding comes from a new study released by Microsoft and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) as part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. To identify tech scams and their effects on everyday consumers, researchers at IPSOS Public Affairs polled 1,000 adults around the world. 
 
 Study results indicate IT support scams are on the rise. Two out of three customers have been exposed to this type of fraud in the last 12 months, and many follow attackers' leads until they put their personal information and devices at risk. 
 
 IT support scams usually follow a common pattern: attackers call senior citizens at home and claim to be with a reputable company. They claim that there is malware or other tech problems on the victim's PC, and offer to sell tech support for a fee. From there, they seek remote access to the device and save victims' information for future fraud. 
 
 One in five customers continued with potentially fraudulent interactions following initial exposure, meaning they visited a fake website, downloaded software, provided fraudsters with remote access to their device, or handed over credit card details or another form of payment. 
 
 While this study targeted consumers, the growth in scams can pose a danger to the enterprise. Michael Kaiser, executive director at NCSA, says IT managers should be aware of the proliferation of this scam. 
 
 "Some [fraudsters] try to get into people's computers by using remote access," he explains. "If that computer is connected to the office or has business information, or access to credentials that could get someone into a business computer, that could be a pretty big risk for the enterprise." 
 
 Businesses should be aware that the ages of IT scam victims are changing. Of the people who continued with fraudulent interactions, 17% were older than 55, and 34% were between the ages of 36 and 54. 
 
 Half of them were between the ages of 18 and 34, which came as a surprise to researchers. 
 
 "A lot of times we think of these scams as targeting older people, but there were a lot of millennials who responded to this scam," Kaiser says. 
 
 The common victim demographic is changing as attackers' methods continue to change. Fraudsters use cold calling, Web advertisements, pop-ups, and other strategies to get consumers on the phone and obtain access to their computers, explains Courtney Gregoire, senior attorney in Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit. 
 
 Millennials are more likely to fall for fraudsters' increasingly complex strategies. The generation that has grown up attached to technology also has a high reliance on their devices. 
 
 "We think [the rise] is correlated to the shift in these fraudsters using more pop-up email and website misdirection online," she says of the increase in millennial targets. "Fraudsters are trying to convince victims something is wrong when nothing is, in fact, wrong," she continues. "At their core, they're using social engineering." 
 
 Businesses have reason to be concerned about the rise in millennials falling for IT support scams. After all, these young professionals are making up more of the workforce. 
 
 "[IT managers] should remember that really, any risk to their employees on the Internet is transferable into the workplace," Kaiser warns. He encourages IT pros to make workers aware there are risks beyond the business that warrant their attention. 
 
 Gregoire emphasizes the importance of employee education, especially for business with BYOD programs. "You can't overtrain on safe computer hygiene," she says. It's also important for organizations to keep their antivirus and antimalware up to date. 
 
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 Kelly is an associate editor for InformationWeek. She most recently reported on financial tech for Insurance & Technology, before which she was a staff writer for InformationWeek and InformationWeek Education. When she's not catching up on the latest in tech, Kelly enjoys ... View Full Bio ||||| Even with technology, it seems that age may bring wisdom after all. A recent study suggests that old folks aren't falling for tech support scams all that often — but their grandchildren are. Millennials, far from the inherently tech-savvy caricatures as portrayed by the media, are actually somewhat gullible when it comes to calls, e-mails or popup ads claiming to offer tech support, but delivering only scams. 
 
 The information comes from a joint study between Ipsos Public Affairs, which is a technological survey-based research group, and Microsoft. Ipsos surveyed 1,000 adults from 12 countries about their experiences with tech-support scams, especially those claiming to be representing Microsoft. 
 
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 The results were actually somewhat encouraging. On a global scale, only 20 percent of respondents took the scams seriously, and only nine percent lost money to them. The results were a bit worse in the United States, though: 33 percent fell for scams, and 21 percent parted with their hard-earned cash. 
 
 What’s more interesting is that the age breakdown is not exactly what you might expect. Younger users were actually much more likely to fall for scams than their older counterparts. Twenty-seven percent of the 18-24 demographic fell for a scam; 13 percent of them lost money. A staggering 32 percent (nearly one-third) of the 25-34 group fell for a scam; 18 percent of them lost money. 
 
 At the 66+ demographic — where you might expect to find the largest amount of fraud, given that elderly folks often fall for phone scams — there wasn’t much deception. While seniors encountered phone, e-mail and popup scams at roughly the same rates as their younger counterparts, they heard out scammers only 11 percent of the time, and gave into them only 3 percent of the time. 
 
 The good news, at least, is that relatively few people fall for online scams, and even fewer fork over any money to them. In the meantime, keep an antivirus program active on your computer, ignore links embedded in strange emails and remember that Microsoft will never call you first. 
 
 Originally published on Tom's Guide.
– Mark Zuckerberg famously said "young people are just smarter," but when it comes to internet scams, it seems millennials aren't so savvy after all. A new survey found that 50% of the victims of tech support scams were 18- to 34-year-olds; by comparison, only 34% of people ages 36 to 54 were likely to click phony pop-up ads, emails, or calls. The group least likely to do any of those things were those the Facebook founder would consider ancient: the over 55s, with only 17% likely to be conned. The Ipsos poll of 1,000 people in 12 countries revealed that two out three were hit with some sort of tech-related scam in the past year, which puts their personal information at risk. Live Science reports that overall only 20% took the scams seriously, with 9% losing money. Americans, however, were the most gullible, with 33% believing the pitch and 21% losing cash. Dark Reading reports that IT scams often involve phone calls in which a potential victim is told their computer has been infected with malware, followed by an offer to sell tech support. From there, the scammers aim to gain remote access to a victim's computer. "If that computer is connected to the office or has business information … that could be a pretty big risk for the enterprise," says Michael Kaiser, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance, which released the study with Microsoft. He urged keeping antivirus and anti-malware software up to date and more IT training of workers, many of whom are millennials.