Microsoft Adopts CVRF Format for Security Bulletins

Since the beginning of recorded time, security researchers, software vendors and hackers have been issuing security advisories in all kinds of nutty formats. Some feature excellent ASCII art, some have clever inside jokes and some come from Microsoft. Now, there’s a effort underway, called the Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework, to standardize the way that vulnerabilities are reported so that they’re in a common, machine-readable format.