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Disable Time Sync NOW—Ugly GPSd Bug Brings Sunday FAILs

| | GPS, gpsd, network time protocol, NTP, open source, SB Blogwatch, sit back and watch the fun from a safe distance
On Sunday, you might find some equipment thinks it’s 2002. Yet another case of critical open source code being maintained by a single unpaid volunteer ...
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NTP: The Most Neglected Core Internet Protocol

| | core protocol, Infosec, Internet, Network Security, NTP, NTS
The Internet of today is awash with networking protocols, but at its core lies  a handful that fundamentally keep the Internet functioning. From my perspective, there is no modern Internet without DNS, ...
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Verifying NTP Reserved Mode Denial of Service Vulnerability

Verifying NTP Reserved Mode Denial of Service Vulnerability

| | CVE-2009-3563, DoS, NTP, Ruby
I recently needed to check a NTP Reserved Mode Denial of Service vulnerability CVE-2009-3563, but without causing the DoS condition on the production server.  Using Metasploit’s auxillary module auxiliary/dos/ntp/ntpd_reserved_dos was not an option ...
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