I'm a Windows 98/2000/XP veteran making the jump to Ubuntu and Windows 7. One of the feature in Windows 7 that I thought I'd like to try out was BitLocker. I have no TPM hardware nor the desire to ...

BitLocker drive encryption is a very important feature in Windows 11 that helps safeguard your files from malicious actors. By encrypting your drive, BitLocker makes it so that even if someone steals ...

Q: What are the pros and cons of using Windows BitLocker? A: You can do many things to help keep your computer secure, and encryption is one of those options. Various ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released the KB5041585 cumulative update for Windows 11 that brought some important changes. Unlike the KB5041580 patch for Windows 10, which basically only fixes problems, this ...

BitLocker is a hard drive encryption feature available in Windows Pro and Enterprise editions. After locking your hard drive partition with BitLocker, you can unlock it using the BitLocker key. In ...

I'm dinging away at a hands-on of the Vista RTM release, but figured I'd hit this topic now because I've had some reader inquiries. Vista has a new system accessory, a drive encryption utility, called ...

It can be quite frustrating and alarming to see There are no more BitLocker recovery options on your PC, especially when you are locked out of the system. This error ...

Microsoft dismissed recently-disclosed threats to its BitLocker disk-encryption technology as “relatively low risk,” noting that attackers must not only have physical access to a targeted PC, but must ...

Microsoft says research spelling out multiple attack scenarios to access files protected by BitLocker presents a relatively low security risk to users Microsoft dismissed recently disclosed threats to ...