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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Frequently asked questions pertaining to NTP’s patent suits against four major telcos. Now that NTP has decided to sue four major wireless carriers for patent infraction, many people may be wondering ...

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced its new SyncServer S80 server integrating ...

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 ...

A U.S. appeals court has denied Research in Motion’s (RIM’s) petition for a rehearing of its long-running patent dispute with NTP, once again raising the possibility of an injunction on sales of RIM’s ...

Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends, EA.com, and other online game services used a never-before-seen technique that vastly amplified the amount of junk traffic ...

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 ...