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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...