A Microsoft Defender for Endpoint attack surface reduction (ASR) rule tagged real app shortcuts in the Start Menu and taskbar as malicious. It’s fixed now, but the shortcuts won’t come back automatically. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday afternoon, Microsoft wrote it’s fully deployed a fix... Read more

FBI agents with combat gear stand by a vehicle during a standoff with Dwight Watson, a former military policeman of North Carolina, who drove his tractor into a pond at the National Mall March 18, 2003 in Washington, DC Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) A little-known policing app credited... Read more

Over $300,000 was stolen from Zulily using malicious code that diverted shipping fees and reduced the price of Zulily merchandise. A file was discovered on the software engineer’s work computer titled “OfficeSpace Project,” with the accused admitting to naming the scheme after the 1999 comedy.Illustration by Beatrice Sala A... Read more

/ The company is adding some handy automation features to its web-based spreadsheet software. It’s only a matter of time before Excel can take over my job. Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has announced it’s making Excel’s autocomplete even smarter, at least in the web version that comes... Read more