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 involved with Moonv6, the world’s largest native IPv6 test bed, have demonstrated that the Network Time Protocol runs over IPv6, the long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main ...

Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), has passed away aged 85. He created NTP in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and network, a critical step ...

Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives There are two types of open source projects: those with corporate ...

Network time protocol (NTP) is a mechanism used to synchronize the date and time over IP based networks. Cisco Unified Communications platforms have a built in NTP client to ensure the proper date and ...

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An attack research group was the number 1 target of DDoS in the first three months of this year, according to a new report by a US-based global security company, with a warning that the researchers ...

Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many uses for GPS, though. There ...

When you want to synchronize files between remote network equipment and servers at a main facility, all computers must have the accurate Universal Time Coordinated, or UTC, an official standard for ...

Attackers abused insecure Network Time Protocol servers to launch what appears to be one of the largest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks ever reported, this time against the infrastructure ...

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Most Hackaday readers will be familiar with the idea of a network time server; a magical box nestled away in some distant data center that runs the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and allows us to ...