Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI after receiving a valid legal demand tied to a federal investigation involving three laptops in Guam.

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

Microsoft automatically uploads BitLocker recovery keys to the cloud, allowing FBI access via warrants as proven in recent ...

If you’ve signed in with a Microsoft account, your disk is likely already encrypted, and the key is likely already stored on ...

If you can’t find your BitLocker recovery key, this post will help you. BitLocker is a volume encryption feature in Windows that lets you encrypt an entire volume to protect your data. It provides a ...

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.

How many times have you been locked out of your PC because you accidentally spammed the wrong PIN or exceeded the max number of sign-in attempts? This and starting Windows in Safe Mode are two ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

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 ...

You might have encountered encryption on messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. It is nothing but securing your messages. When your messages are encrypted, they can only be read by the ...