Serious flaws have been discovered in NTP which can be exploited to cause wholesale destruction on a network -- because of a clock.

This is an example of the lengths to which Network Time Protocol aficionados will go in search of slightly better performance from their NTP servers.

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) service allows devices on the Drexel network to set and synchronize their real-time clock with a high degree of accuracy. Drexel's Network Time Service is typically ...

Most Hackaday readers will be familiar with the idea of a network time server; a magical box nestled away in some distant data center that runs the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and allows us to ...

The Network Time Foundation, the organization that oversees the NTP project, has released version 4.2.8 of the standard protocol implementation to address the vulnerabilities.

A network time protocol security hole has been discovered and there are reports that exploits already exist for it and are being used in attacks.

New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos Exploits can be used to snoop on encrypted traffic and cause debilitating outages.

Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives ...