[time-nuts] When NTP goes wrong...

[Mark Sims]

Ars Technica just put up a piece on the effects of various attacks on NTP with a link to the original paper.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/new-attacks-on-network-time-protocol-can-defeat-https-and-create-chaos/
Also, I was looking at my firewall last week and it showed over 10,000 attempts to hack NTPD over a period of a couple of days.  I usually only see a couple of dozen...  somethings afoot out there.