Fighting the long battle to get users to apply software updates promptly, Microsoft has launched a new service for individuals and smaller organizations that may help.
myBulletins is a page on Microsoft’s Technet site for IT that holds a list of security bulletins which apply to products the user has selected. The page includes all the essentials of each security bulletin: the date posted, ID, product name, impact (type of vulnerability, e.g. information disclosure, remote code execution, etc.), severity level and whether the update requires a reboot. A summary up top shows the number of updates by severity level and the number requiring a reboot.
The information on severity and reboots have long been included in bulletins, even in the Patch Tuesday advance notification, to help large organizations prioritize updates and plan for downtime from them. Microsoft says that myBulletins “…is a very useful online service for administrators in enterprise or…
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