Signal Check

This episode covers a wild security week including Android car systems secretly hijacked for ad fraud, a critical Microsoft Entra ID flaw already exploited in the wild, and a GitLab vulnerability weaponized in just days. Adrian walks through why the patch window has collapsed to almost nothing and what it means when your dashboard computer might be working for cybercriminals while you drive. Stories covered: - Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware (BleepingComputer) - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-infect-android-car-head-units-with-proxy-botnet-malware/ - Microsoft patches max severity code execution, privilege escalation flaws (BleepingComputer) - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-of-max-severity-entra-id-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/ - GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure (The Hacker News) - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/gitlab-cve-2026-19478-comes-under.html - EXCLUSIVE: How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt - Reuters (Reuters) - https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMingFBVV95cUxQRG1ONC11bUpzNWFwMGdRbVVUM0ZHb0l0VHJfU0dsYi1KdmxTZVRnRllWaDE2MkZtSFExX0U5MGtGRFpkOGFYZmY1OHJtMEV4UG9MVUlfc3hUQ2dMTlJOZ2d0R3cwZjB4OFkxbW1rNHhaNEt0alp6RGdGVTRJb201WWloTTR3Y2hKVVdzN0paZXFEUmVmQl9VeHFqZ1dyQQ?oc=5 - This Is the Best Thing You Can Do to Both Prevent and Treat Runner’s Knee, According to a Sports Medicine Doctor (Runner's World) - https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a73488185/best-way-prevent-treat-runners-knees/ - Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model (TechCrunch) - https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/frontier-ai-labs-still-wont-say-how-theyd-contain-a-rogue-model/