Microsoft stores the hard drive encryption key in customers' online accounts by default. It can be accessed there with a court order.

Microsoft stores the hard drive encryption key in customers' online accounts by default. It can be accessed there by court ...

Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

Microsoft provided FBI with BitLocker keys from cloud backups to decrypt laptops in a Guam fraud case, revealing a legal access point for encryption.

If your machine is uploading your BitLocker keys to Microsoft, Microsoft can and will give them to law enforcement, it turns ...

Handing over BitLocker keys has to be the final straw.

Microsoft provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI after investigators served a valid warrant in a fraud investigation based in Guam. Federal agents believed ...

Microsoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud ...

For either mode, Microsoft "typically" backs up BitLocker keys to its servers when the service gets set up from an active ...

Microsoft has provided BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI in a Guam fraud case, marking the first known instance of such cooperation and raising privacy concerns.

If you're ready to replace your old computer and hand it down to a friend or family member, you'll need to wipe your data and reset it. Here's how to do it properly.

BitLocker is a fairly important security feature in Windows that you can use to encrypt your PC's hard drives. Although it was optional and primarily meant for professional SKUs of Windows initially, ...