For those of you who dont know, the NIST time and fre­quency lab­o­ra­tory and its two com­pa­tri­ate labs in Canada and Mex­ico all signed an agree­ment cre­at­ing a Multi-​​​​National Time Stan­dard for North Amer­ica under the NORAMET Treaty. NORAMET was the North Amer­i­can Metro­log­i­cal Union/​​Association which is com­posed the the Nations of North Amer­ica and provides […]

DAN­GER WILL ROBIN­SON, DAN­GER! Microsoft Feature-​​​​Set does it again! A secu­rity researcher at Google is rec­om­mend­ing com­puter users make sev­eral con­fig­u­ra­tion changes to pro­tect them­selves against a “pre­vi­ously unknown vul­ner­a­bil­ity” in the Vir­tual DOS (VDOS) Ser­vice Inter­face (the com­po­nent which sup­ports the old DOS func­tion­al­ity on today’s Win­dows sys­tems) . This lia­bil­ity is one that allows “untrusted users to take […]

Certichron’s SecureNTP is a per­fect solu­tion of where to get your time ser­vice from if you oper­ate a Casino or other gam­ing estab­lish­ment. NGC rules man­date proper time man­age­ment in all devices and Certichron’s SecureNTP ser­vice and its log­ging processes pro­vide third party attes­ta­tions which are NIST cal­i­brated in accu­racy. Certichron’s com­mer­cial NIST-​​​​calibrated time ser­vices are per­fect as […]

Overview ntp_request.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.4p8, and 4.2.5, allows remote attack­ers to cause a denial of ser­vice (CPU and band­width con­sump­tion) by using MODE_​​PRIVATE to send a spoofed (1) request or (2) response packet that trig­gers a con­tin­u­ous exchange of MODE_​​PRIVATE error responses between two NTP dae­mons. Impact CVSS Sever­ity (ver­sion 2.0): CVSS v2 Base Score:6.4 (MEDIUM) […]

Cer­tichron and Mein­ber­gUSA announce part­ner­ship to mar­ket Certichron’s SecureNTP ser­vices atop Meinberg’s pre­ci­sion time­keep­ing systems!

PCI DSS — 10.4 Com­pli­ance Alert — NTP Flaws require imme­di­ate attention.

Your PC uses two clocks to keep time; a soft­ware clock that runs while your PC is on and a hard­ware clock that keeps time while the PC is pow­ered down. Hard­ware Clock Most PC’s have a quartz crys­tal clock that runs off a bat­tery. These clocks are rel­a­tively inex­pen­sive and can gain or lose 5 to 10 sec­onds a day (in most […]