Should security updates 'always' be installed?

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Published on 2012-09-26T13:55:23Z Indexed on 2012/09/26 15:50 UTC
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We are a small shop, no real sysadmin. So developers (Java EE) also try to maintain Ubuntu server 12.0.4.

When I login a terminal and I see messages like:

6 packages can be updated.
6 updates are security updates.

Should all security updates always be installed? can some be ignored? Should these be acted upon immediately? Or one could wait for 2:00 AM coming Sunday? Is there a way to know a 'critical' update?

Is there a good sysadmin for dummies resource I should be reading?

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