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 ...

Earlier this year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant requesting recovery keys for encrypted data stored on three laptops. Microsoft complied. Marking the first known instance in which the ...

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 ...

Apple appears close to supporting end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, almost a year after the GSM Association said it was working to implement the privacy feature for messages sent between ...

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PCWorld reports that Microsoft has confirmed a bug in classic Outlook version 2511 preventing users from opening encrypted emails. This issue significantly impacts business users and organizations ...

The RansomHouse ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has recently upgraded its encryptor, switching from a relatively simple single-phase linear technique to a more complex, multi-layered method. In ...

Elon Musk and X have officially launched Chat, their new take on all things communication on the social media platform, featuring an encrypted, secure, and diverse range of experiences now available ...

Gianluca Di Bella claimed quantum computing already makes encryption and ZK-proofs vulnerable due to “harvest now, decrypt later” risks. Gianluca Di Bella, a smart-contract researcher specializing in ...

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With ...

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 ...