Shaw down

[FlameOn]

Maybe Trump finally got his wall built, just of the fire variety

[Raekwon]

EMP charged and ready

[Jbo]

Just came back up for me. NW Calgary

[Inferno]

Still down out here.


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[dbcTweeker]

Back up in Douglasdale

[Hack&Lube]

Back up in NE Franklin area

[Dion]

Back up in High River.

[btimbit]

Back up for me

[FlameOn]

Comment from Canadianoutages.com lol

Donald Trump accidentally bumped into the internet on/off switch for Canada, we're just glad he didn't hit the switch beside it to launch the nuclear missiles.... - Shaw Support

[HotHotHeat]

This can't be hardware. Nationwide, multiple ISPs for this duration.

[Top Shelf]

Heard from some old Shaw friends that they believe it to be DDOS attack

[Looch City]

[photon]

Originally Posted by Top Shelf

Heard from some old Shaw friends that they believe it to be DDOS attack

Distributed Denial of Shaw?



Read an interesting article a few days ago about a hacker who was hacking IoT devices (webcams etc), but instead of using them to power botnets to do DDOS attacks, was hacking them to either patch them if he could, or if he couldn't he would actually brick the device. Had a big network of his own doing it.

Which is both awesome and bad, but really it's on device manufacturers to stop putting out products with bad security. I think it should actually be illegal, I mean there's laws against making food with packaging that would allow food to be infected before it gets sold, make it so companies have to remove default passwords and have a decent level of effort put into making and keeping the devices secure (because people aren't going to do it for damn sure).

[Resolute 14]

That was my first thought too, Photon. There is an active shadow war being fought over IOT devices, and grey hats are trying to take some of them out because bad actors are trying to take them over for attacks just like this.

Hajime and BrickerBot are fighting the good fight in dubious fashion.

[Sainters7]

Haha total blonde moment for me (or bald moment, I suppose), but I just read this and had a mini heart attack; "Oh NO, not under an hour before the NFL Draft!!!!!!". Then it hit me, I'm reading this while using Shaw wireless internet. Ohhhh, I see now... Sainters you big dummy

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

This can't be hardware. Nationwide, multiple ISPs for this duration.

I really don't think it was multiple ISP's. The numbers for Shaw were over 10 times higher. If I had to guess, and those numbers are self reported it was people thinking they were on a different ISP than they were.

[Fuzz]

Shaw Communications Inc. says it has restored its internet, television and home phone services after an outage Thursday afternoon.
The company said all services were restored as of 3:20 p.m. PT.
The outage began at 12:27 p.m. PT. Shaw says it was due to a software failure during a routine upgrade to their network. The majority of the service's customers were back online by 2:30 p.m. PT.
Shaw offered customers an apology for the outage.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/shaw-outage-1.4089139

Somebody done goofed up.

[HotHotHeat]

Who the hell performs maintenance at 2pm on a weekday?

[Fuzz]

Shaw, apparently.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I really don't think it was multiple ISP's. The numbers for Shaw were over 10 times higher. If I had to guess, and those numbers are self reported it was people thinking they were on a different ISP than they were.

According to 660 News, Rogers confirmed they were having outages also. But it is clear that Shaw had the lions' share of problems, and I'd guess Rogers' issues resulted from piggybacking on Shaw's infrastructure.

As far as the 2PM change goes, given how many redundancies Shaw *should* have in place, they probably thought this would have been a minor change. The problem here won't be the upgrade itself, but what happened to prevent failover systems from engaging.