If you’ve signed in with a Microsoft account, your disk is likely already encrypted, and the key is likely already stored on ...

Microsoft may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon valid request - here's how to keep it safe ...

BitLocker is a disk encryption feature in Windows that protects your data by encrypting entire drives. Sometimes, the BitLocker screen appears on system startup, preventing users from booting into ...

Microsoft provided FBI with BitLocker keys from cloud backups to decrypt laptops in a Guam fraud case, revealing a legal ...

Microsoft has acknowledged that it can provide U.S. law enforcement agencies with access to BitLocker encryption keys when ...

Some call Microsoft move "simply irresponsible" ...

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Windows is in a weird spot. In its 40-year history, the operating system has weathered its fair share of missteps, but ...

The disclosure underscores how recovery keys stored in Microsoft’s cloud can be accessed under warrant, even when enterprise ...

You don't know Windows 11 as well as you think you do. I reveal all the strange, brilliant, and downright surprising features you've probably missed in the Settings app. Chris Hoffman is the author of ...