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 ...

NTP 4.2.8p9 includes a patch for a vulnerability that could crash ntpd with a single malformed packet. A researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in the Network Time ...

In order for a server in your business to sync its time with that of a client computer, it needs to use what is known as Network Time Protocol (NTP). When your NTP server is working correctly, all ...

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 ...

The ntp.org software, once convinced it's 1999, steers your local clock towards the new date and time by introducing an adjustment of 500ppm. To lose 5.303×10^8 seconds at a rate of 43 seconds per day ...

Making sure that every computer in your office displays the correct time and date is essential to keeping your employees in sync and preventing miscommunication in the workplace. Synchronizing the ...

Chances are you’ve heard about network protocol in the past but likely have little idea of what it is all about. For sure right now, we can say that there are different types of network protocols ...

They say time is money, but if that’s true, money must also be time. It’s all figurative, of course, but in the case of this NTP server heater powered by Bitcoin mining dongles, money actually does ...

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 ...