NTP is one of those quiet but essential, parts of the global Internet. It's what keeps servers and PCs around the world on time. It's what enables backups to work, your credit-card purchase to go ...

We’ve gotten used to the fact that the clocks on our internet-connected computers and smartphones are always telling the right time. Time servers, provided by a variety of government agencies as well ...

SEATTLE -- We're foolish. We live our lives on the internet and we take it for granted. We don't realize that the internet is fragile as a Chihuly glass sculpture. As 2014 OpenSSL Heartbleed security ...

Researchers at Google have uncovered several serious vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol and experts warn that there are exploits publicly available for some of the bugs. The vulnerabilities ...

Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encrypted communications, or tamper with Bitcoin transactions, computer ...

The project illustrates how reliable time is provided by several time servers using Network time Protocol (NTP) based on AVR. The project illustrates how reliable time is provided by several time ...

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US-CERT issued an alert warning of the recent rash of network time protocol (NTP) amplification attacks. NTP attacks have been blamed for recent DDoS attacks against popular online gaming sites.

Most OS X security updates are issued alongside other fixes via the Software Update mechanism, and these require some kind of user interaction to install—you’ve ...

MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADVA (FSE: ADV) today announced a new software release that extends its Oscilloquartz timing assurance technology to synchronization networks using Network Time ...

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David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to sync their clocks, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet, died Jan. 17 at his ...