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 ...
Topic ===== possibility of remote root exploit in ntpd (time synchronization). Problem Description ===== NTP (network time protocol) daemons such as ntp and xntp3 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow ...
[Benoit] was using an extremely old alarm clock which normally ran on mains power, and he plugged it in to his computer’s UPS to keep it operational during power outages. He noticed that when the UPS ...