BitLocker encrypts your hard drive and requires a key to decrypt it. Microsoft may give your key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Don't save your key to the cloud; instead, store it locally or ...

In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their ...

Concerns that quantum computers may start easily hacking into previously secure communications has motivated researchers to ...

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. Many modern Windows ...

Microsoft confirms FBI can access BitLocker keys via valid legal orders Cloud accounts store unencrypted keys, enabling law enforcement access; local accounts avoid this risk Senator Wyden criticizes ...

For years, security teams treated ransomware as a technological problem. Security teams hardened backup systems, deployed endpoint detection, practiced incident response playbooks built around data ...

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...

The FBI arrested a Los Angeles County man for allegedly sending a phony ransom text to Savannah Guthrie's family amid the ...

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 ...

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and ...

“LummaStealer is back at scale, despite a major 2025 law-enforcement takedown that disrupted thousands of its command-and-control domains,” researchers from security firm Bitdefender wrote. “The ...

As the first major tech company to comply with government demands for encrypted data, Microsoft sets a dangerous precedent. Earlier this year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant requesting ...