Can you resolve with ping and nslookup? Is there bad split tunnelling on VPN? Is the proxy broken, or the PAC misconfigured due to a new VLAN? Is your system not set to use TLS1.2 and it requires that as of yesterday? Are there any other network anomolies? Can you establish TCP?

Describe the symptom, not the conclusion:
'The firewall is blocking my app'
No, your application is saying it is unable to communicate with a specified server. We do not know anything else about what's wrong in the chain of dependencies for that error to appear.

What it feels like to debate gamers on how computer security works

The people who used to smuggle cell phones into prisons were real heroes

Everybody should date down except me

im pirating Ableton Live suite 12

the .NFO has an interesting tidbit:

'does not modify any original binaries'.

How does it work? lets find out. live reversing thread lets go

How did the Colonial Pipeline hack start?
Password login with no 2FA on the perimeter.

How did the Microsoft vs SVR email theft start?
Password login with no 2FA on the perimeter.

How did the Change Healthcare attack start?
Password login with no 2FA on the perimeter.

the first person to deploy the phrase 'there's more than one way to skin a cat' in casual conversation was taking a big swing

The Paso Internacional Los Libertadores is a mountain pass in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. Wikipedia

I used to gripe that websites are designed by people with cinema displays who don't understand their users have 720p laptop screens. these days I feel like websites are designed by people that don't even own a computer

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

Its Noon on a Monday, and I've already had 2 calls with organizations that had more tools than they knew how to use / could use / had properly deployed / and were still asking for info on more.

TOOLS ARE NOT THE ANSWER!

You need to be measuring the efficacy of your stack 1st!

norvid_studies gwern.net/cat-knocking testing whether prey is really dead or just playing dead

I know we'll never get it, but one thing I would really love is to hear a Boeing exec's genuine answer to the question, 'What did you think was going to happen when the quarterly financials became more important than the planes?' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

youtu.be/uCC3O3P6RAc

Be careful turning off that Server 2003 box its job might be more important than yours.

If you think we’re going to make it to Mars before we transmog into VR suit dopamine queens I respect your beliefs

Apparently Google lets you run ads that link to a totally different page??? I ran into this scam a few days ago - very concerning