PC World

BitLocker, Windows’ built-in encryption tool, no longer trusts your SSD’s hardware protection

After reports of widespread flaws in hardware-based SSD encryption, Microsoft has pushed out an update that defaults BitLocker protection to software-based AES encryption. To paraphrase Fox Mulder, ...
AZ Central

Pros and cons of BitLocker, Microsoft’s built-in encryption tool

Question: What are the pros and cons of using Windows BitLocker? Answer: You can do many things to help keep your computer secure, and encryption is one of those ...
MCPmag

Understanding and Configuring BitLocker with TPM

I wrote about the BitLocker feature in Microsoft Windows Vista almost two years ago, when Vista had just been released. With Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft implemented a few enhancements to the ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s Bitlocker: useful tool or impediment to forensics?

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 ...
HotHardware

Microsoft Mitigates Dangerous YellowKey Tool That Breaks BitLocker

A few week back, aggrieved cybersecurity researcher Nightmare-Eclipse released a pair of Windows exploits dubbed YellowKey and GreenPlasma, following his reveal of three Windows Defender-related ...
MCPmag

Understanding and Configuring BitLocker with TPM

I wrote about the BitLocker feature in Microsoft Windows Vista almost two years ago, when Vista had just been released. With Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft implemented a few enhancements to the ...