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

The point of encrypting data is to prevent unauthorized third parties from viewing it. This is a point of contention between companies like Apple and Google and law enforcement, where both companies ...

BitLocker is a hard drive encryption feature available in Windows Pro and Enterprise editions. After locking your hard drive partition with BitLocker, you can unlock it using the BitLocker key. In ...

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 confirmed it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI after receiving a valid warrant, reigniting the debate over user privacy and encryption. While BitLocker remains secure, the incident ...