On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The announcement came in a post ...

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 ...

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 ...

David L. Mills, a computer scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, passed away on January 17, 2024 at the age of 85. Mr. Mills is known for developing the protocol `` NTP ...

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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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 ...

Who would have imagined that Network Time Protocol (NTP) - such an innocuous protocol designed to synchronize the clock on a laptop, smartphone, tablet, and network infrastructure devices -- would be ...

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