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

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

Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys following a warrant request, allowing federal agents to ...

Now that the capacities of laptops and other portable device drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users ...

I'm not sure if anyone saw the news, but apparently Crucial's and Samsung's self-encrypting drives have very weak keys or key verification and is easily bypassed to get access to the encrypted data.

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It’s imperative to point out that Device encryption is different from BitLocker drive encryption. All Windows Home editions support only the former, whereas every other edition supports both security ...

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a ...