Sometime on the morning of April 3, Microsoft's Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers went haywire. At first, Microsoft's NTP server (time.windows.com) reported the time being an hour later than it ...

For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography ...

Local clock inaccuracy is so miniscule as to not merit mention with respect to NTP. (around three orders of magnitude difference). Click to expand... For bare metal, yes. For virtual, no. Fire up ntpd ...

Can anyone point me to a reliable public NTP time server service? I've been told that I have 2 weeks to find a provider, open the firewall and get it running for an Active Directory rollout. You would ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers that can be abused to amplify DDoS attacks has decreased dramatically this year, but the threat remains. DDoS (distributed denial of service) ...

A mysterious issue is affecting the default Windows NTP server (time.windows.com), according to multiple complaints coming from Reddit and Twitter users, screwing up everyone's computer clocks. Based ...