u/TheCarnundrum

SOLVED: I decided to just unplug the whole works (Xfinity gateway and Fire TV stick) for a solid hour, let them think about what they'd done, then plugged it all back in and now it's working. No idea why that did the trick but not rebooting stuff, but if anyone else has this problem, try unplugging it all for awhile and see if it helps.

Not sure what happened, but as of today, my Fire TV Stick 4k Max (1st gen 2021 model) just stopped being able to connect to my wifi (nothing special, just the normal Xfinity gateway that they give you with home internet). I've done all of the following:

• Reboot the Fire TV stick
• Disconnect the Fire TV stick from power for 5 minutes
• Forget the wifi network and attempt to reconnect
• Reboot the Xfinity gateway
• Cleared all caches on the Fire TV
• Tried manually assigning the wifi network with a static IP
• Factory reset the Fire TV stick and attempt to reconnect during setup
• Deregistered it from my Amazon account (less for troubleshooting and more because I am preparing to need to replace this with something else).

They all fail. Nothing has changed about my network since the stick could connect to it last, so I'm pretty stumped. There was no OS update on the Fire TV between the last time it worked and now. It's on Fire OS 7.7.1.3 and Fire TV Home 7280112.1.

Connecting to my phone's hotspot DOES work, but I obviously can't do that permanently.

Clearly the problem is with my Xfinity setup somehow, but again, absolutely nothing has changed unless Xfinity has pushed a change behind the scenes that broke something. The app shows the Fire TV Stick last connected earlier this morning and it wasn't paused/blocked. I "forgot" the device in the Xfinity app, forgot the network on the Fire TV stick, and tried again, still nothing but "Wi-fi Error. An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again."

Aside from all the things I already tried, has anyone else had this happen with a similar setup and solved it?

Trying to do the CALDERA room, which requires you use both the Attack Box and a Windows VM. During my session today:

• "Network failure" disconnected me from my RDP session to the Windows VM. Reconnected fine, nothing lost there. But then . . .
• Windows VM crashes. Great, now I have to do the whole setting up the CALDERA agent on a new machine, which is probably also going to crash.
• The VM clipboard thing on the AttackBox refuses to paste things I copy using any normal paste keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-v, Ctrl-Shift-v, etc). Only if I right-click and select Paste does it work, and even then it only works the second or third time (it usually pastes whatever I had previously copied in the VM instead of the thing I just copied from the task).
• AttackBox crashes. All of the CALDERA setup (agents, adversaries, abilities) I've done through the tasks is gone, so I have to do all of that again too . . . except . . .
• AttackBox refuses to connect, it spins forever and then gives me an Authentication Failed error. I'm on my third time trying to connect and it just won't.
• Fourth try, AttackBox reconnects and I get all the way through editing/creating abilities, creating a new adversary profile and running the operation. AttackBox crashes mid-run with Authentication Failed. Try to reconnect. It refuses again. I've lost everything I've done in this room. At this point I'm 3.5 hours into this room that says it takes 2 hours, and I'm not anywhere near finished, but I have to start this task completely from scratch.
• Give up, find walkthrough to escape this ridiculously broken experience.

I used to love this platform, but lately it's just unusable. It's not teaching me security, it's teaching me being a sysadmin for awful unstable infrastructure. I'm paid up until September of 2027 and I'm starting to think that was a mistake.

I am probably an idiot who's missing something obvious or widely known, but I haven't bought any kind of sports cards since high school which was multiple decades ago, so bear with me here.

When I used to buy baseball cards, I could buy either a pack or case of packs of random cards, or a full season set with a card for every player in the league, or I could go down to my local card shop and buy a full team set for a specific team that the card shop guy assembled from loose cards. So I think, hey, maybe I'll buy a Legacy team set from Panini after hearing them drop the URL on the broadcast. But as far as I can find, the only NWSL cards you can get from Panini are "instant" cards that get created on a per match basis, so there's no full set of NWSL players, no random packs, no team sets. Is that just the way of the card world now or am I, as I suspect, a complete moron who can't perform the basic life function of finding an easy to find product?

I got an alert around 4:00 AM this morning about an active threat on one of our endpoints which S1 killed successfully. After investigation, the threat turned out to be a false positive, so I marked it as such (False Positive/Benign in Singularity). I also added the hashes to our exclusion list because it's a software auto-updater we need to run on our endpoints.

Since then, I've gotten 40 notifications about the process being successfully killed. The auto-updater process S1 flagged has now successfully run on this endpoint, so I'm not sure what's happening here. Is it still actively trying to kill the process when it runs even though I've marked it false/benign/resolved/excluded or is this just a weird glitch? In the alert details, the Mitigation tab shows "KILL 40/40 SUCCESS, 40 out of 40 actions completed successfully in under 46491479ms"

EDIT: Logged in this morning to many more alerts, and now seeing "KILL 94/94 SUCCESS, 94 out of 94 actions completed successfully in under 109910112 ms" so it's still going.