Network Time Protocol
Okay; guess what? We can enumerate using time! There's a protocol out there that our computers use to synchronize the time between each other. It's called Network Time Protocol (NTP). Now, you may be thinking, Dale, you cannot possibly have a quote about this. Well, guess again. Cindy Lauper said, If you're lost, you can look and you will find me, time after time. When it comes to hacking, the things that you don't expect end up giving up information.
NTP is a protocol that we use for synchronizing our clocks between all the systems in a LAN network. This has been around for decades, having been developed in 1981 by David Mills. In a domain, one of the most important settings will be time, and all the computers in the domain need to be within a certain timeframe. For example, in the Microsoft world, the computers or the desktops themselves can't be more than 5 minutes out of sync. Now, technically, domain controllers use NTP with what...
