I always take my laptop with me when I travel, which means I'll inevitably have to leave it unattended in the hotel room or airport security line. To ensure my personal data is protected if my PC is ...

Backing up your BitLocker recovery key before a problem occurs can help you avoid losing access to important files. Keep at least two secure copies, such as one in your Microsoft account and another ...

Microsoft is not backporting a new Windows 7 feature that allows customers to encrypt removable devices to the platform’s precursors, namely Windows XP and Windows Vista, but it is offering users a ...

TIME AND AGAIN, people are told there is one obvious way to mitigate privacy threats of all sorts, from mass government surveillance to pervasive online tracking to cybercriminals: encryption. As ...

BitLocker is a Microsoft Windows security and encryption feature included with certain Windows versions. BitLocker enables users to encrypt everything on the drive Windows is installed on, protecting ...

Windows Vista is loaded with system enhancements and cool new features, especially when it comes to security. Encrypting File System (EFS) never really caught on due to its shortcomings. Among other ...

Soon after research was released that BitLocker drives could be decrypted using SSD hardware encryption flaws, Microsoft released a support bulletin describing how to protect BitLocker from 1394 & ...