CALDERA VOLUTION FOILS RAMEN LINUX WORM.On the heels of the widely spread Ramen ra·men n. 1. A Japanese dish of noodles in broth, often garnished with small pieces of meat and vegetables. 2. A thin white noodle served in this dish. Linux worm, Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ) has announced its Linux management solution, Caldera Volution ("Volution"), can prevent the effects of the Ramen worm or other similar attacks. The Ramen worm attacks systems installed from boxed media in default configurations that have not received current system updates and exploits several network services by entering through known security holes. Volution, a Web- and directory-based management solution, prevents the Ramen worm by enabling network administrators to apply scheduled security patches A fix to a program that eliminates a vulnerability exploited by malicious hackers. See vulnerability and patch. across entire networks without having to individually manage or touch each computer. With Volution, administrators can use policies and profiles to manage thousands of Linux systems. In addition, Volution is distribution neutral, meaning it can manage any version of Linux not just Caldera's OpenLinux. "Caldera anticipated the need for a Linux management solution that can make security updates feasible for any size network," said Drew Spencer, chief technology officer for Caldera Systems. "The execution and implementation of that strategy is our newly released management tool: Volution. It was created to help administrators with just these kinds of problems and will assist them in keeping their Linux systems safe from this and other viruses." The suggested list price for Caldera Volution is US $2995. Volution ships with the Volution software, Novell eDirectory Novell eDirectory (formerly called Novell Directory Services, NDS) is an X.500 compatible directory service software product released in 1993 by Novell, Inc. for centrally managing access to resources on multiple servers and computers within a given network. and OpenLDAP, a secure Web server (1) A server on the Web that supports one or more of the major security protocols such as SSL, SHTTP and PCT. This means that order form data from your browser is encrypted before being sent (uploaded) to the Web site, making it extremely difficult for a third party to decipher and licenses to manage up to 10 nodes. Additional nodes are sold separately. All international versions of Caldera Volution will be available within 30 days. They include: Chinese -- simplified and traditional, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. |
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