There's a couple of good security events coming up in Scotland which should be a great chance to meet some of the security community up here and also hear some good speakers!
On the 28th of February, there's an OWASP Scotland meeting with Dr Steven Moyle of Secerno doing a talk on Database Security. There's more information and the address to RSVP to on the OWASP Scotland Mailing list
Next up on the 27th of March is the latest Securetest Edinburgh RANT with Graeme Marsh from Deloittes doing a talk on "Plugging the Gap - Information Leakage in Organisations". For more information and to RSVP for this one go to this page on SecureTests site.
There's a post over at the Microsoft %41%43%45%20%54%65%61%6d blog about their new Hello secure world resource.
When I saw this I thought I'd go over to the site and take a look around, as Microsoft have released some great information about developer security in the past and it's an area of interest for me at the moment..
But then I ran into a complete roadblock getting to the site! To view it you have to have the latest version of Silverlight installed! Unfortunately I think that won't work for a lot of users, either due to corporate builds not having deployed silverlight yet (and hopefully decent security policies in place to stop users self-deploying software) or due to platforms issues (admittedly a small proportion of linux fans like myself), although that said it's likely to be an increasing problem for some content, as a lot of mobile devices run Opera which isn't supported by silverlight from what I can see...
I understand that Microsoft are keen to get people looking at some of their new technology, but it's a shame that this kind of resource is limited in such a way that a decent proportion of their target audience won't be able to use it.... Perhaps a limited HTML version could be made available so people without access to silverlight