Microsoft says it may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Here's how to protect your privacy.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Handing over BitLocker keys has to be the final straw.

Since BitLocker heavily relies on WinRE to handle pre-boot authentication, including the recovery password prompt, if WinRE is disabled, corrupted, or not properly ...

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