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OWASP Scotland Local Chapter
Welcome to the local Scotland chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Rory McCune
| funds to OWASP earmarked for Scotland. |
Participation
The professional association of OWASP Foundation Inc., is always free and open to anyone interested in learning more about application security. Prior to participating with OWASP please review the Chapter Rules and the OWASP overview for some background. As a 501(3)c non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of a meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible and all financial contributions can be made online using the online chapter donation button. We encourage organization and individual supporters of our ethics & principals to become a voting MEMBER. To be a SPEAKER at a future meeting simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
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Local News
November Chapter Meeting
The OWASP Scotland November chapter meeting is all set for Thursday 26th.
Venue is DNS, Abbey business centre, 83 Princes Street
Timings will be :-
Doors open 6pm - have a chat
Talks start at 6:30pm -
Main talk is by Lee Lawson on Physical Security, bio and talk overview below.
Lee Lawson is a principal consultant with dns and heads up the 'security testing & response' team. During this OWASP meeting he will be talking about physical security, specifically the weaknesses of locks as physical security measures. The presentation will take the attendee through some basic attack techniques that will open most padlocks, pick most door locks, open handcuffs and remove laptop locks such as the Kensington lock. Lee will cover shimming, raking, picking, tubular lock picks, electric lock picks and bump keys.
This presentation is not intended to make you an expert in lock picking as that takes time and practice, but it is a thorough introduction to the subject and will educate the audience as to the inherent weaknesses of such security measures.
If you have any lock picking tools or locks that you would like to practice on then please bring them along.
pub afterwards for anyone who's interested :)
Other Activities
- 16th October 2008 - COI Browser Standards for Public Websites
The Scotland and London Chapters joint response to the Central Office of Information draft document on browser standards for public websites (version 0.13) (File:OWASP-COI-Browser-Standards.pdf).

