Every day, cyberattacks threaten to disrupt the delicate balance of time. Hackers target time servers, aiming to manipulate time and sow discord.
When even one time server drifts or is compromised, the fallout can be catastrophic - from $460 million trading losses to six-hour global outages.
- 2021 Facebook Global Outage (Infrastructure and Security Compounding)
- 2017 British Airways IT Outage (Infrastructure Failure)
- 2012 Knight Capital Trading Disaster (Financial Fraud/High-Frequency Trading Loss)
Every certificate, every trade, every cloud sync depends on accurate, tamper-resistant time.
Real attacks on public time infrastructure are rare… BECAUSE organizations like Network Time Foundation (NTF) stand guard. NTF powers the
open-source software behind millions of time servers worldwide, including:
ntpd and chrony — battle-tested NTP daemons used by Google, AWS, and the U.S. DoD- Public time pools serving billions of synchronizations daily
- Security audits and rapid patches for emerging threats (e.g., NTP amplification DDoS, drift attacks)
Your contribution strengthens the systems that keep time accurate — and the world stable.
Donate today to protect the heartbeat of the digital world.