Harlan was quoted in BBC Technology News today, if you haven’t read the entire article, take a moment to do so below:
A massive worldwide effort is under way to harden the net’s clocks against hack attacks.
The last few months have seen an “explosion” in the number of attacks abusing unprotected time servers, said security company Arbor.
Unprotected network time servers can be used to swamp target computers with huge amounts of data.
About 93% of all the vulnerable servers are now believed to have been patched against attacks.