If you're running Windows 11 Pro, you could be costing your SSD almost 50 percent of its performance and speed. According to extensive tests run by the fine folks at Tom's Hardware, Windows 11's ...

Companies relying on Microsoft BitLocker to encrypt the drives of their employees’ computers should install the latest Windows patches immediately. A researcher disclosed a trivial Windows ...

Forward-looking: Originally introduced with Windows Vista in 2006, BitLocker is Microsoft's own solution for managing fully encrypted volumes and storage units. The technology is also notorious for ...

Taking the time to review network encryption settings other than those in BitLocker needs much more review and examination to ensure thorough and consistent security. When we think about encryption ...

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately ...

Microsoft says an Iranian state-sponsored threat group it tracks as DEV-0270 (aka Nemesis Kitten) has been abusing the BitLocker Windows feature in attacks to encrypt victims' systems. Redmond's ...

This week at the Chaos Computer Club's (CCC) annual Chaos Communication Congress, hacker Thomas Lambertz presented 'Windows BitLocker: Screwed without a Screwdriver,' detailing how users can beat ...

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.

Microsoft has rolled out a long-awaited improvement to BitLocker encryption with Windows 11 version 25H2, introducing hardware acceleration that significantly reduces storage overhead. The update ...

That article includes the detail that - apparently - bitlocker encryption will include all connected drives. If that's actually true, it sounds like a potential serious pitfall for anyone who uses ...

What Microsoft only roughly outlined at its "Ignite" event a month ago is now taking clearer shape: The Bitlocker drive encryption integrated into Windows will again support certain hardware ...