Microsoft BitLocker is a fine volume encryption tool only marred by unnecessarily complex hardware and software requirements. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or ...

The consumer release of Vista has brought with it a whole host of new Microsoft technologies to the Windows desktop. Among them is piece of software that allows easy encryption of hard disk volumes ...

Don’t remove your drive until encryption begins. The problem doesn’t seem to solve after restarting BitLocker setup or even after multiple reboots. This solution requires you to shrink the drive on ...

Enterprises with many Windows devices might struggle to know which have BitLocker enabled or where to find BitLocker recovery keys. These techniques can help. A recent Microsoft Support knowledgebase ...

Clean installs of Windows 11 version 24H2 now have BitLocker device encryption enabled. Clean installs of Windows 11 version 24H2 now have BitLocker device encryption enabled. is a senior editor and ...

The 0x8004100e BitLocker MBAM error on Windows occurs when an MBAM agent tries to connect to the MBAM server and fails to send encryption details. The error may also ...

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 ...

A security researcher has come up with a new method of extracting BitLocker encryption keys from a computer's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that only requires a $27 FPGA board and some open-sourced ...

Encryption can be a bit of a double-edged sword for organizations. It is an effective and essential tool for protecting sensitive data, but it often comes with a healthy side of user confusion and ...

Researchers at the Netherland’s Radboud University have uncovered serious security issues with several solid-state drives that use hardware-based encryption—vulnerabilities that would allow an ...

The latest version of Windows 11 will address the frustrating situation when the built-in Windows encryption tool BitLocker accidentally encrypts a USB drive. The new policy allows admins to exclude ...