Microsoft downplays Windows BitLocker attack threat. news. Dec 8, 2009 3 mins. ... (TPM) chip. The Fraunhofer SIT researchers spelled out five attack possibilities, ...

The attack is intended to counter the widely held belief that a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) device is a foolproof way of protecting sensitive data, Fraunhofer SIT researchers said on Thursday.

Cooke insists that when Microsoft designed BitLocker for Windows 7, it took into account TPM’s vulnerabilities. The company should have known them as this isn’t the first time TPM was hacked.

I recently decided it was time to retire TrueCrypt which I still used under Windows 10 with Full Drive Encryption (Works okay mostly, legacy boot only, needs to be disabled for each major update ...

These are powerful protections that defend against bootkit attacks but they are not available on all computers. “TPM and BitLocker (collectively) would stop VBootkit from working.

Microsoft says Bitlocker works best when used in combination with a TPM chip. Which is ironic, because Stacksmashing's hack is only possible thanks to the TPM chip. Related articles ...

BitLocker, TPM, and tinfoil hats No, Microsoft isn't building a back door into Windows Vista's industrial-strength encryption feature, Here's the real story. Written by Ed Bott, Senior ...

During yesterday's announcement, one of the most controversial changes to Windows 11 from Windows 10 is the new requirement for a Trusted Platform Module - or TPM. Right now, Microsoft is saying ...

Microsoft dismissed recently-disclosed threats to its BitLocker disk-encryption technology as “relatively low risk,” noting that attackers must not only have physical access to a targeted PC ...

Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using Trusted Platform Module chips after Black Hat researchers demonstrated a hack of them last week. TPM, the bases of Windows hard drive encryption ...