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 ...

Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), has passed away aged 85. He created NTP in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and network, a critical step ...

Researchers involved with Moonv6, the world’s largest native IPv6 test bed, have demonstrated that the Network Time Protocol runs over IPv6, the long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main ...

Network time protocol (NTP) is a mechanism used to synchronize the date and time over IP based networks. Cisco Unified Communications platforms have a built in NTP client to ensure the proper date and ...

David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to sync their clocks, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet, died Jan. 17 at his ...

Cybersecurity is critical to all facets of the internet. Companies spend millions on cybersecurity every year. Still, often-overlooked areas degrade security. A key example of this is time. Time plays ...

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An attack research group was the number 1 target of DDoS in the first three months of this year, according to a new report by a US-based global security company, with a warning that the researchers ...

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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 ...

AMG Systems of the United Kingdom and USA introduced the AMG810/816 series of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. NTP servers are required in closed networks where there is no connection to the ...