You're a typical system administrator, with a million and two urgent things to do before you get to go home for the day. Next on your list is bringing up a new NTP server for your department so your ...

Note: This article was first published in the October 2016 issue of Linux Journal. Network time synchronization—aligning your computer's clock to the same Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) that ...

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Keeping accurate time has never been more important. Inaccurate time can cause servers and applications to go awry, causing service disruptions. For example: As fighter Manny Pacquiao was ready to ...

Attackers can exploit NTP to generate large volumes of junk traffic for distributed denial-of-service attacks. Update NTP to keep your servers out of the DDoS botnet The Network Time Foundation’s ...

Network admins take note: A set of vulnerabilities can bypass HTPPS with ease and result in spying, outages and authentication bypass. Discovered on Wednesday by Cisco's security intelligence and ...

Recent denial-of-service attacks taking down League of Legends and other popular gaming services are doing more than just wielding a rarely-seen technique to vastly amplify the amount of junk traffic ...

Setting up a Unix system to be an NTP client is generally straightforward. On those Unix platforms that include NTP in the default configuration, you may only need to make a few adjustments to NTP’s ...

The potency of distributed denial of service attacks has increased steadily but dramatically over the last 14 months. There has been a steady but dramatic increase in the potency of distributed denial ...

The network time protocol was updated to ntp-4.2.8p8, patching a handful of vulnerabilities that can be leveraged in DDoS attacks. The network time protocol, at the center of a number of high-profile ...