BitLocker encrypts your hard drive and requires a key to decrypt it. Microsoft may give your key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Don't save your key to the cloud; instead, store it locally or ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

In a move to improve interoperability between Google Workspace and Microsoft Office, Google has baked a new feature that lets you edit Microsoft Office files locked behind a password with minimal ...

Although Microsoft has improved File Explorer over the years, it still doesn't meet modern expectations. You can't open folders side by side, add tags to folders, pin ...

Encryption is ubiquitous in modern computing, from the padlock icon in a web browser showing a secure connection to the end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp. If these exchanges are worth protecting (and ...

The new program, Direct File, helped low- and moderate-income taxpayers file their returns more easily, and had been expanding. By Tara Siegel Bernard The Internal Revenue Service is shutting down its ...

Masterful knife making. Watch as a Damascus blade gets a custom wa-handle crafted from olive wood, ebony, and redheart, pinned and locked with precision, no glue required. #WaHandle #Woodworking ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

What if every email you sent, every message you typed, and every file you stored online could be intercepted, read, or stolen? It’s not just a hypothetical, it’s a reality for millions of people who ...