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 ...

A Reddit user ended up losing 3TB of games and backups after reinstalling Windows 11 because the operating system was lagging. Turns out, the BitLocker security was enabled by default after Microsoft ...

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 ...

BitLocker is a security feature that adds an extra layer of protection to your computer and protects it from unauthorized access. A lot of beginners and even some hard-core Windows users are unaware ...

A Reddit user has detailed a distressing experience in which the BitLocker encryption feature locked access to over 3 terabytes of personal data following a fresh installation of Windows 11, a ...

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately ...

If you're running Windows 11 Pro, you could be costing your SSD almost 50 percent of its performance and speed. According to extensive tests run by the fine folks at Tom's Hardware, Windows 11's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Roy, the unsympathetic technical support character in the cult ...

Bad computer security can sometimes have a cascading effect, as researchers from the Netherlands discovered. They first spotted vulnerabilities in the embedded encryption of several SSD models from ...

I'm not sure if anyone saw the news, but apparently Crucial's and Samsung's self-encrypting drives have very weak keys or key verification and is easily bypassed to get access to the encrypted data.

The CHwapi hospital in Belgium is suffering from a cyberattack where threat actors claim to have encrypted 40 servers and 100 TB of data using Windows Bitlocker. On Sunday, CHwapi suffered an attack ...