Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday.

Forbes reported on Friday that Microsoft turned over recovery keys for BitLocker, allowing the FBI to access data stored on ...

You can use Disk Utility to encrypt removable drives to prevent other people from accessing your data, but that requires you to navigate Disk Utility’s many options, menus, and buttons. In Mountain ...

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As the first major tech company to comply with government demands for encrypted data, Microsoft sets a dangerous precedent.

The Trusted Computing Group's newly released specifications for the management of hard drive encryption are now being adopted by a number of vendors -- Seagate arguably the most prominent, but also ...

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

Now that the capacities of laptops and other portable device drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users ...

Hard drive encryption is nothing but the organized corruption of data. The technology hit the spotlight in 2006 when the infamous VA laptop was stolen which contained personally identifiable ...

I have a fresh install coming shortly. I am pondering encrypting the OS drive albeit I am not entirely sure what that achieves for me security wise on my desktop (with all the other drives not ...

The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys following a warrant request, allowing federal agents to ...