When Microsoft announced that Windows Vista was going to be available in multiple editions, curiosity turned toward the higher-end versions of Vista targeted at corporate environments (Vista ...

BitLocker is the most common way to encrypt your Windows PC to protect it against data theft in the event that someone steals ...

Overview: Windows PCs can be securely encrypted without BitLocker using powerful third-party tools and built-in EFS features.Strong passwords, encrypted externa ...

Losing your USB flash drive before a big presentation is a terrible way to start a Monday. Losing a drive that also contains valuable personal data or confidential company information will ruin your ...

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 ...

It doesn’t matter what your primary way of interacting with the digital world looks like, one thing that’s consistently on everyone’s mind is security. Your private information should be private. You ...

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Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own ...

I was recently talking to someone I know about using Windows Defender to scan their system, and they decided to use the "offline scan" option (the one that reboots and does a scan before loading ...

PC has a hard drive partitioned into C and D. Win 10 Pro resides on C and saves its key without issue to my account. D is a no go. It is also bitlocked and it opens automatically when C is decrypted.