Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web

Just who is looking over your shoulder when you browse the Internet? Tomorrow, web users will be given a new tool to shine a light on the commercial organisations which track your every movement online.

Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software community behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a “watershed” moment in the battle for web transparency.

Everyone who browses the Internet leaves a digital trail used by advertisers to discover what your interests are.

Users who activate Lightbeam will be able to see a real-time visualisation of every site they visit and every third-party that is active on those sites, including commercial organisations which might potentially be sharing your data.

[Lynis] Security and system auditing tool to harden Linux systems

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix/Linux (specialists). It scans the system and available software and performs many individual security checks. It determines the hardening state of the machine and detects security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and possible configuration errors.