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CommBank backs Oly Homes expansion and launches CommBank Assessed Manufacturers for prefab home buyers.

What’s the news?

CBA is helping modular home builder Oly Homes to nearly triple its output as part of a broader effort to make prefabricated housing more accessible to Australians, while also launching its new initial list of CommBank Assessed Manufacturers.
Funding from CBA will support Oly Homes with the construction of a new 21,900 square metre factory on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
The new facility will allow Oly Homes to increase its output from around 200 homes a year to approximately 550 homes annually.
Oly Homes expects to complete the new factory in the second half of 2026. The facility is expected to create 70 new jobs and support economic growth in the region while delivering more housing supply to the market sooner.

What are CommBank Assessed Manufacturers?

CommBank’s new Assessed Manufacturers list provides Australians with a list of prefab builders that have met the bank’s eligibility criteria.1 For more information on the requirements each manufacturer must meet, visit CommBank.
Customers who choose one of these builders for a fixed-price build contract up to $1.5 million will be able to access progress payments of up to 80 per cent of the contract price or 150 per cent of the land equity (whichever is lower) before the home is affixed to the land.
Customers who choose non-CommBank Assessed Manufacturers can access progress payments for prefabricated dwellings prior to the property being affixed to land for up to 60 per cent of the total contract price or 120 per cent of the land equity (whichever is lower).
Prior to CommBank’s expanded policies, a customer would have had to fund up to 90 per cent of the upfront costs.
Oly Homes is among the first builders on the CommBank Assessed Manufacturers list with its new funding also aimed at the company taking advantage of the growing popularity of modular homes.
If you’re a manufacturer interested in joining CommBank Assessed Manufacturers – please get in touch with us via email: BBPrefabManufacturers@cba.com.au

Quotes from Mike Vacy-Lyle, Group Executive Business Banking, CBA

“Oly Homes can build and install a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom house in just 9 weeks – but even they can’t keep up with the surging demand amid the national housing shortage,” said Vacy-Lyle.

“We’re proud to support Oly Homes to scale up and deliver much needed housing. Imagine what could be achieved if this innovative housing model was more widely adopted – bringing more homes to market quickly and easing housing accessibility and affordability pressures across Australia.”

Quotes from Dale Funston, Managing Director of Oly Homes

“Factory production means we don’t lose build days to weather, we have all trades on hand every day so there’s no time lost to scheduling errors, and with standard plans and multiple projects going concurrently, we deliver high quality homes to our customers faster, with less waste,” Funston said.

“But the number of customers knocking on our door wanting a home is now outpacing what we can deliver, even with all our efficiency, so it’s time to expand.”

Quotes from Marcos Meneguzzi, Executive General Manager Home Buying, CBA

“CommBank’s prefabricated home lending policy gives customers access to funding during the offsite construction phase so they don’t have to fund this all themselves. Customers building with a CommBank Assessed Manufacturer will now be able to access more funding upfront providing even greater financial flexibility,” Meneguzzi said.

“We are committed to helping more Australians achieve their homeownership goals and believe this change will open the door for more people to explore prefabricated home construction as a potentially faster building method.”

Rising levels of plastic waste are breaking down in every part of Earth’s land, sea and air, leading to the proliferation of micro- and nanoplastic pollution posing a risk to all lifeforms.

Flinders University Associate Professor Melanie MacGregor, an ARC Future Fellow and Matthew Flinders Fellow in Chemistry, has co-authored a scientific policy submission to next month’s United Nations final round negotiations to support the launch an effective international treaty to manage plastic production and waste.

Nanoplastics are pollutants of concern to human health and ecosystems around the world and are an important part of this treaty debate, with the intentional and unintentional release of chemicals and other particles part of all plastics’ life-cycle, says Associate Professor MacGregor, who is a member of the international scientist coalition for the plastic treaty.

The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty has submitted a policy brief to the UN-ledIntergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to be held in Geneva,  Switzerland on August 5-14, 2025.

Worldwide consumption of plastics is ballooning. More than half of the plastics ever made were created after 2000. On the current trajectory, annual global production is expected to double by 2050.

With much of this plastic being single-use, and less than 10% of plastic waste currently being recycled, the output will continue to contaminate land and marine environments around the world.

“In our submission, we call for more control, prevention and monitoring of plastic industries, in particular the release and ‘leakage’ of chemicals and other particles including primary polymers,” says Associate Professor MacGregor, who leads the Nano and Microplastics Research Consortium at the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University.

“Tougher measures should be taken to reduce the release of greenhouse gas emissions, chemicals and pollutants such as volatile organic compounds and micro- and nanoplastics to the environment, food chain and living organisms both during production and after use,” she says.

As well, much more needs to be done to improve production, use, waste management, recycling and remediation of plastics – not least to stop the intentional use of microplastics (particles of up to 5mm) in paints,

personal care products, industrial abrasives, and synthetic textiles, tyre and road materials, food contact and agricultural plastics, and other industries.

“Millions of tonnes of microplastics can break down into even smaller nanoplastic particles and lead to chemical leakages,” says Associate Professor MacGregor.

The second part of the fifth session of the INC next month aims to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2).

Flinders University researchers have been monitoring microplastic levels in freshwater and marine environments in South Australia, with one study finding plastic pollution in seven water catchment areas contributing to inflow into Adelaide and regional coastal environments. Fibres (72 %), followed by fragments (17 %) and beads (8 %) were the most abundant microplastics found in the freshwater samples.

Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty (2025). Article 7: Releases and leakages. Why is this article important and what could be improved? https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15638884

Monday 28 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – The 15th Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament drew more than 330 participants from 37 countries, including 30 Women Speakers. Organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), in partnership with the Swiss Parliament, the event coincided with several key milestones in the global push for gender equality.

The Summit was an opportunity to refocus attention on gender equality as the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action — widely regarded as the blueprint for women's rights — as well as 10 years since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals and a quarter century since the adoption of the UN’s women, peace and security agenda.

In their final declaration, the Women Speakers voiced their solidarity with all women and girls living in conflict zones and raised concerns about the disproportionate risks they face during wars.

They reaffirmed that gender equality, inclusivity and women’s leadership are essential foundations for sustainable peace and security. They also highlighted that the persistent underrepresentation of women in peace mediation, negotiation and diplomacy remains a significant obstacle to lasting peace.

The declaration called for the urgent adoption of more inclusive and gender-responsive approaches across science and diplomacy — particularly in addressing climate change, regulating emerging technologies and restoring trust in democratic institutions — all seen as vital for sustainable peace.

Citing IPU data, the Summit highlighted that women’s parliamentary representation has more than doubled over the past three decades, rising from 11.3% in 1995 to 27.2% today. The share of women leading parliaments has also doubled, growing from 10.5% to 21.2%. However, this means that women currently hold just 58 out of the 274 Speaker posts worldwide. With these statistics, the Speakers called for gender parity to become a universal norm and political standard.

The Summit declaration will help shape discussions at the upcoming Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, ensuring that gender equality and women’s empowerment remain at the forefront of the global parliamentary agenda.

The Summit follows the launch in April of the IPU’s 2025 campaign Achieving gender equality, action by action which promotes 10 key actions structured around three key thematic areas: promoting parity in parliament and politics; encouraging gender-sensitive institutions; and combating gender-based violence and discrimination.

The IPU is the global organization of national parliaments. It was founded in 1889 as the first multilateral political organization in the world, encouraging cooperation and dialogue between all nations. Today, the IPU comprises 181 national Member Parliaments and 15 regional parliamentary bodies. It promotes peace, democracy and sustainable development. It helps parliaments become stronger, younger, greener, more innovative and gender-balanced. It also def

Strong retail and business investment keep WA on top, while anticipated rate cuts could eventually support a lift in performance for NSW and Victoria.

Western Australia has once again claimed the top spot in the latest CommSec State of the States report, leading the nation’s economic performance rankings for a fourth consecutive quarter.

South Australia also began 2025 with a bang, climbing from fourth to second, driven by solid gains across several key indicators.

The State of the States report determines which Australian state or territory economy is performing best by tracking eight key economic indicators and comparing the latest observation with decade averages (or the “normal”).

“Western Australia led across several economic measures, taking first place in retail trade, housing finance, and business investment. Meanwhile South Australia ranks first on two indicators – construction work and dwelling starts,” Chief CommSec Economist Ryan Felsman said.

“Overall, the economic performance of Australia’s states and territories is being supported by a combination of slowing inflation, falling interest rates, rising real wages, robust government spending and a solid labour market.

“But economic growth has moderated, held back by slowing public investment, population growth and household spending. The future path will depend on the resiliency of the job market, further interest rate cuts and US President Donald Trump’s trade policies.”

In the July 2025 edition of the State of the States:

Western Australia leads the national performance rankings for the fourth successive report. The state is ranked first on three of the eight economic indicators – retail trade, housing finance and equipment spending.

South Australia has jumped to second from fourth after a strong start to 2025, with a pickup in consumer spending and business investment. South Australia now leads other economies on dwelling starts and construction work done, lifting from second spot in the previous quarter.

Queensland stays third, ranking second on relative unemployment and housing finance, but consumer activity in the southeast of the state was disrupted in the March quarter by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Victoria dropped from second to fourth place. The state is in third spot on four indicators but is held back by weakness in relative unemployment. Victoria stays in second spot for retail spending with it being 10 per cent above its ‘normal’ levels or the decade average.

Tasmania is steady in fifth place – ranking first on relative unemployment, with the trend jobless rate at a record low 3.8 per cent in June. But the state is held back by relative population growth, which is at the weakest level in nearly a decade.

New South Wales slips back to sixth from equal fifth position due to a delayed transition from public to private sector led growth, while the ACT joins NSW in sixth, ranking first on relative economic growth, constrained by more modest public demand and weak business investment

The Northern Territory stays in eighth place despite strength in relative population growth. The decade-average method of assessing economic performance disadvantages the Top End given significant LNG construction over 2012–18 inflated a range of economic indicators. That said, the Territory has lifted its economic performance in the past 12 months.

Annual growth rates

The State of the States report also compares the annual growth rates across the eight major indicators, enabling comparisons in terms of more recent economic momentum. This quarter’s report revealed:

• The commodities and tourism-focused state of Western Australia continues to outperform the rest of the nation, also ranking first on four of the eight key economic indicators. Population growth is particularly strong.
• South Australia is the big improver, also jumping to second from fourth spot, supported by a pick-up in consumer spending, business investment and construction activity.
• The Northern Territory lifts from fifth to third due to robust growth in business investment and construction activity.
• Queensland slips to fourth from second following a fall in coal and agricultural exports caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
• Victoria dips from third to fifth despite above-average net overseas migration, supporting household spending.
• New South Wales joins Victoria in fifth, up from sixth, with Sydney’s heavily mortgaged households benefiting from interest rate cuts.
• The ACT (seventh) and Tasmania (eighth) are both being held back by weakness in private sector investment.

About the CommSec State of the States Report

The July 2025 edition of the State of the States report uses the most recent economic data available. While population growth data relates to the December quarter of 2024, other data – such as unemployment – is much timelier, covering the month of June 2025, with the majority of the other indicators using March quarter of 2025 figures.

CommSec, the self-directed broking arm of Australia’s largest bank, assesses the performance of each state and territory on a quarterly basis using eight key indicators. Those indicators include economic growth, retail spending, equipment investment, unemployment, construction work done, population growth, housing finance and dwelling commencements.

Just as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) uses long-term averages to determine the level of “normal” interest rates, CommSec compares the key indicators to decade averages; that is, against “normal” performance.

CommSec also compares annual growth rates for eight key indicators for all states and territories, in addition to Australia as a whole, enabling a comparison of economic momentum.

From Justice Steven Moore, President of the Australian Judicial Officers Association – 25 July 2025

Threats against judicial officers are increasing, new data revealed on the inaugural United Nations International Day for Judicial Wellbeing show.

Between 2023 and 2024, the number of Victorian judicial officers who sought support to manage a threat more than doubled, with the largest number coming from Magistrates.

Based on 2025 reports to date, the overall number of reported threats is expected to increase a further 70 per cent.

The figures reflect New South Wales research from July 2022 which found 61 per cent of surveyed judges had experienced some form of threat, with 41 per cent threats of harm. The sitting and retired judges surveyed reported threats were most commonly experienced in person in the courtroom or court precinct followed by on social media.

The Australian Judicial Officers Association (AJOA) called on the Attorneys-General of the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories to formulate and implement consistent policies and measures to address the increasing threats.

“The increasing prevalence of threats to the safety and security of Australian judicial officers is alarming and unacceptable,” AJOA President Justice Steven Moore said.

“It demands urgent action to ensure judicial officers and court staff may go about their work without unnecessary risks to their psychological and physical health and safety, and to ensure that they may properly discharge their oaths of office.”

Justice Moore said while judicial decisions were often significant for those involved or widely discussed in the community, personal threats should never be tolerated as ‘part of the job’.

“Legitimate scrutiny of decision making is a cornerstone of the law. If someone disagrees with the basis for a decision or believes a legal error has occurred there are avenues of appeal for that to be properly considered,” he said.

“Judicial officers perform an essential social role. It means putting personal opinion aside and applying laws enacted by parliament and legal precedents. Threats of personal harm for performing this role are unwarranted and should alarm the community.”

“It is particularly sobering to consider the deteriorating situation in relation to safety and security of judges in the United States, where judges have been murdered as recently as 2023,” he said.

“Although the experience in the US shouldn’t be assumed to automatically flow to Australia, there is clearly an erosion of respect for, and understanding of, the role of judicial officers, that left unabated has the potential to undermine our system of justice.”

The United Nations chose July 25 for the International Day for Judicial Wellbeing to coincide with the anniversary of the Nauru Declaration of Judicial Wellbeing.

Read the full paper on Judicial Safety and Security: https://www.ajoa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/P105_02-250723-Judicial-safety-and-security-paper-25-July-2025.pdf

The Australian Judicial Officers Association is the professional association of judges and magistrates in Australia.

Quarterly Activity Report and Appendix 4C

Quarter ended 30 June 2025 – Intelligent Monitoring Group Limited (“Intelligent Monitoring”, “IMG” or “the Company”) (ASX: IMB) is pleased to provide its Quarterly Market Activity Update.

Highlights

• Reported net operating cash flow of $17.0m for 4Q 2025
• First “clean” quarter post-debt refinance and acquisitions. 
• Underlying operating cash flow for FY25 of $32.4m pre-refinancing, acquisition, and ADT/JCI transition costs
• Unaudited EBITDA for FY25 $38.6m – timing of several large service contracts outstanding and expected early in FY26. Between $38-40m guidance
• Unaudited underlying earnings growth of +8.2% for FY25
• $24.0m cash in bank plus $35m acquisition facility available
• IMG to prepare an on-market share buy-back capability

Financial Update

IMG is pleased to report an operating cash flow of $17.0m for 4Q FY25. This result confirms and validates the inherent cash flow strength of IMG.

Cash in the bank grew $11.1m in the quarter.

As expected, Q4 saw a strong step upward, driven by growth in underlying earnings and the cessation of non-recurring costs, including the earlier refinancing, ADT transition, and M&A-related costs and working capital drags.

Unaudited underlying full year EBITDA of $38.6m, whilst around the middle of the guidance range, was a little behind the company's target as some work under discussion and pending award took longer than expected to be realised. Whilst disappointing, the shortfall is primarily timing related, and this work contributes to a healthy and growing pipeline for FY26. The acquisition of DVL (Dec) and Kobe (March) contributed above expectations.

Underlying earnings growth on FY24 (i.e. before acquisitions and adjusted for prior period capitalisation policies) was 8.2%. The business run rate in Q4, combined with the pipeline in hand, anticipates a strong growth result in FY26.

The company will give further FY26 guidance at its AGM in late October.

The underlying operating cash flow for the year was $32.4m, reflecting a year of investment in new service lines (and related products) and working capital, as DVL and Kobe were acquired and integrated into the IMG fold.

Outside of further inventory or growth investments, EBITDA and operating cash flow are expected to converge closer to each other during FY26.

Investing cashflow for the quarter was $4.0m with the majority (75%) relating to the NZ 4G telephony upgrade program (which was at its peak level during the half and is expected to tail off over the next six months). Other capital expenditures were less than $1m including project-related IT costs of $0.5m.

In light of the strong and reliable cash flows and growing cash balance, the IMG board has determined to put in place the mechanics for an on-market share buyback, with Morgans Financial to be appointed as manager. It will assess the use of this facility against all other capital allocation options over coming periods to maximise shareholder returns and value creation.

Operational and Management Comment

The business remained highly productive during the fourth quarter.

During Q4:

IMG refined its go-to-market strategy in Australia to ADT: Direct, Signature: Industry Partnerships, and IMS: Bureau/Wholesale provider of monitoring services.

Combined its service and installation tech base in Australia under a program #techsunite. Creating one of, if not the biggest, groupings of security technicians across Australia and NZ.

Created a new internal service and operational model in Australia around shared HR, IT, Monitoring, and operations, employing new leaders in HR and Procurement, in particular.  

Completed the successful introduction of ADT Guard across the Australian and NZ ADT business.  The group has assisted the police in apprehending over 30 criminals in the act, due to this new, highly effective service. It is now protecting over 300 sites around Australia.

We are also immensely proud to announce that, after three years of hard work and platform investment and integration, IMG subsidiary Intelligent Monitoring Solutions (IMS) has achieved an ASIAL certified A1/R1A redundant grading in both its IMS control rooms.

With instantaneous backup in case one room fails, IMS is at the top of the industry and in a position that few will be able to match. This provides a critical advantage to all IMS security partners, and we will seek to utilise this further with the launch of the Signature Security partner program for select partners in August.

IMG has had a remarkable 2025 financial year.  With a refinanced balance sheet, positive operational cash flow, clear target markets, and a strong competitive position, IMG is now well positioned to grow and generate increasing returns for shareholders in FY26 and beyond.

We look forward to providing further details at the full-year results release and presentation, scheduled for 26 August 2025.

For more information please visit: https://intelligentmonitoringgroup.com

Gaza Strip: Israeli authorities' deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns.

MSF staff are receiving an increasing number of malnourished patients at our clinics, while they themselves struggle to find sufficient food. Across screenings of children aged six months to five years old and pregnant and breastfeeding women, at MSF facilities last week, 25 per cent were malnourished. At the MSF clinic in Gaza City, the number of people enrolled for malnutrition has quadrupled since 18 May, while rates of severe malnutrition in children under five have tripled in the last two weeks alone.

This is not just hunger – it's deliberate starvation, manufactured by the Israeli authorities. The weaponisation of food to exert pressure on a civilian population must not be normalised. Israeli authorities must allow food and aid supplies into Gaza at scale.

“We see the dire consequences of these shortages in Gaza on a daily basis in our clinic,” says Caroline Willemen, project coordinator at the MSF clinic in Gaza City. “We are now enrolling 25 new patients every single day for malnutrition. We see the exhaustion and the hunger in our own colleagues.”

 Meanwhile, hundreds of people seeking desperately needed aid continue to be attacked by Israeli forces and private security contractors at food distribution sites run by the Israeli proxy, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

“What we are seeing is unconscionable; an entire population being deliberately cut off from food and water, all while the Israeli forces commit daily massacres as people scramble for scraps of food at distribution sites. Any shred of humanity in Gaza has been wiped out in the ongoing genocide,” says Amande Bazerolle, MSF head of emergency response in Gaza.

In the last two months, more than 1,000 people have been killed and over 7,200 injured, according to the Ministry of Health, as they attempted to collect aid, including a large proportion at the distribution sites of the GHF, which is backed and funded by the US government. Despite these sites being set up to avoid aid diversion, they have done nothing to reduce the existence of looting.

“These food distributions are not humanitarian aid, they are war crimes committed in broad
daylight and presented to the world with compassionate language. Those who go to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's food distributions know that they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet in their head,” says Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, MSF deputy medical coordinator in Gaza.

In addition to people wounded at GHF sites, our teams have treated dozens of patients from recurrent massacres by Israeli forces as people wait for flour from trucks that pass by.

“In the emergency room of Sheikh Radwan clinic a few days ago, dozens of patients came in, both dead and wounded,” says Willeman. “These were people who had approached trucks for flour and were ruthlessly shot by Israeli forces.

That day MSF and Ministry of Health medical teams at the clinic, in north Gaza, treated 122 people with gunshot wounds who had been fired on while waiting for flour and additional 46 people were dead on arrival.

To make matters worse, in the last week, community kitchens who provide food to patients and medical staff in hospitals have struggled to do so, some shutting down for days at a time. Even if they can deliver, it is only one meal a day of plain rice for patients who need nutrient-rich food to heal properly, and often nothing for staff. This is no longer about what people can afford. There is barely any food available in most of the strip.

July 24, 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania – As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly central to the operations of America's largest corporations, recent research reveals potential security vulnerabilities that could affect both organizations and their customers.

An analysis by cybersecurity experts at Cybernews examined AI deployments across the S&P 500 and uncovered close to 1,000 potential weak points that may lead to data exposure, theft of proprietary information, and erroneous AI actions.

The study found that 327 S&P 500 companies publicly report using AI tools in their operations in sectors including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy.

While these tools have accelerated innovation and efficiency, safety measures have yet to fully catch up, leaving systems open to misuse or failure. This includes AI outputs that may be inaccurate or misleading, unintended disclosure of confidential data, and risks of corporate secrets being compromised.

Žilvinas Girėnas, head of product at nexos.ai, emphasized, “It's not enough to deploy AI and hope for the best. Businesses need to develop AI with the same safety standards as airplanes: constant oversight, clear guardrails, and a zero-trust approach. Every AI decision must be considered potentially wrong until proven correct, and every input must be monitored to prevent sensitive data from leaking or trade secrets from escaping.”

The potential vulnerabilities extend across multiple industries. Technology and semiconductor companies are especially vulnerable to data leaks and intellectual property risks. Financial institutions might face challenges protecting client data while ensuring AI does not reinforce unfair bias in lending.

Healthcare providers carry the added responsibility of protecting patients from flawed AI-driven recommendations. Meanwhile, industrial and infrastructure sectors must guard against disruptions that could affect critical services, such as power supply or supply chain operations.

For consumers, the consequences are tangible. Unsecured AI systems risk leaking private details – ranging from medical histories to financial records – while flawed AI judgments could influence decisions that directly affect people's health and finances.

As AI tools play a larger role in retail, banking, transportation, and other areas, protecting these technologies becomes essential for public protection.

The report highlights past incidents that illustrate these dangers. IBM's Watson once offered unsafe cancer treatment suggestions. Apple's credit system faced scrutiny after allegations of gender bias. Zillow's AI-driven pricing led to substantial financial losses. Additionally, Samsung experienced unintended source code disclosures due to inappropriate use of AI chatbots by employees.

“AI is becoming more deeply embedded in business operations, and the risks are multiplying. The lessons from all these incidents are clear: unchecked deployment without robust security and oversight leads to real-world failures,” said Martynas Vareikis, Security Researcher at Cybernews.

As AI further transforms businesses, past incidents and potential threats show how crucial it is to improve security strategies in parallel.

ABOUT CYBERNEWS

Cybernews is a globally recognized independent media outlet where journalists and security experts debunk cyber by research, testing, and data. Founded in 2019 in response to rising concerns about online security, the site covers breaking news, conducts original investigations, and offers unique perspectives on the evolving digital security landscape. Through white-hat investigative techniques, Cybernews research team identifies and safely discloses cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities, while the editorial team provides cybersecurity-related news, analysis, and opinions by industry insiders with complete independence. 

Cybernews has earned worldwide attention for its high-impact research and discoveries, which have uncovered some of the internet's most significant security exposures and data leaks. Notable ones include:

• Cybernews researchers discovered multiple open datasets comprising 16 billion login credentials from infostealer malware, social media, developer portals, and corporate networks – highlighting the unprecedented risks of account takeovers, phishing, and business email compromise.

• Cybernews researchers analyzed 156,080 randomly selected iOS apps – around 8% of the apps present on the App Store – and uncovered a massive oversight: 71% of them expose sensitive data.

• Recently, Bob Dyachenko, a cybersecurity researcher and owner of SecurityDiscovery.com, and the Cybernews security research team discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch index, which contained a wide range of sensitive personal details related to the entire population of Georgia. 

• The team analyzed the new Pixel 9 Pro XL smartphone's web traffic, and found that Google's latest flagship smartphone frequently transmits private user data to the tech giant before any app is installed.

• The team revealed that a massive data leak at MC2 Data, a background check firm, affects one-third of the US population.

• The Cybernews security research team discovered that 50 most popular Android apps require 11 dangerous permissions on average.

• They revealed that two online PDF makers leaked tens of thousands of user documents, including passports, driving licenses, certificates, and other personal information uploaded by users.

• An analysis by Cybernews research discovered over a million publicly exposed secrets from over 58 thousand websites' exposed environment (.env) files.

• The team revealed that Australia's football governing body, Football Australia, has leaked secret keys potentially opening access to 127 buckets of data, including ticket buyers' personal data and players' contracts and documents.

• The Cybernews research team, in collaboration with cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko, discovered a massive data leak containing information from numerous past breaches, comprising 12 terabytes of data and spanning over 26 billion records.

• The team analyzed NASA's website, and discovered an open redirect vulnerability plaguing NASA's Astrobiology website.

• The team investigated 30,000 Android Apps, and discovered that over half of them are leaking secrets that could have huge repercussions for both app developers and their customers.

Book Authors – Tyson Yunkaporta & Megan Kelleher.

Shining an Indigenous light on contemporary society, Snake Talk invites us to see the world through the eye of the snake

The Serpent in Aboriginal stories is both creator and destroyer, dwelling between physical and spiritual worlds, between story and history, weaving across earth and sky. The Great Dividing Range is the body of the Serpent, but he does not separate us—he brings us together.

What if this ancient Lore can be found everywhere? What if the stories of the Basilisk, Wyvern, Naga, Quetzalcoatl and many other mythic Serpents also contain the knowledge we need in this moment of crisis?

In Snake Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta and Megan Kelleher follow these stories around the world from Kathmandu to Aotearoa, from Mesoamerica to China to northern Europe. They ask how we can align our human gifts with the patterns of creation, seeking answers from makers who pay homage to the Serpent in images and objects.

This exhilarating new book—like Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story—shines an Indigenous light on contemporary society. Snake Talk invites us to see the world through the eye of the Serpent.

 'An extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming…Unheralded.' Melissa Lucashenko on Sand Talk

'Bristles with revelation…Vigorous brilliance…both sensible and subversive.' Age on Right Story, Wrong Story

Tyson Yunkaporta: