I enjoy listening to the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. He gives a great overview every week of the security issues/patches/exploits and also goes in depth into a variety of security related topics. His explanations are always easy to understand and interesting.
To balance that with something constructive, if you are already comfortable with software development, I'd suggest checking out these to get started with playing around:
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I enjoy listening to the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. He gives a great overview every week of the security issues/patches/exploits and also goes in depth into a variety of security related topics. His explanations are always easy to understand and interesting.
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
It's hard to say this without sounding like one of those condescending security people, but I highly recommend avoiding that guy.
http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
To balance that with something constructive, if you are already comfortable with software development, I'd suggest checking out these to get started with playing around:
https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2009/07/19/exploit-writing-... - Part 1, they go to 11.
https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/ - for web app sec
Those are some great links. Do you follow any security related podcasts? I don't work in security but like to stay relatively up to date.