While the lion’s share of the new features is meant to reduce headaches for IT professionals managing BitLocker use in business, Microsoft has also sped up the initial drive encryption process ...

There's nothing worse than realizing your external hard drive has been lost or stolen, when it contains sensitive personal or ...

The BitLocker encryption built into higher-end versions of Windows Vista goes a long way toward locking out intruders at the boot-drive level, but it's neither 100% hassle-free nor 100% secure.

BitLocker, Microsoft's disk encryption tool, could be trivially bypassed prior to last week's patches, ... a process that could take "seconds" if the process is automated.

The security test lab of Fraunhofer SIT has published a technique for getting around Microsoft's BitLocker disk-encryption technology, even when BitLocker is used in connection with a hardware ...

It's not necessary to re-encrypt the disk due to the way BitLocker (and most other full disk encryption systems) works. BitLocker uses a fast symmetric algorithm (by default 128-bit AES in XTS ...

Microsoft’s full-disk encryption technology, ... The key is unsealed from the TPM only if the same boot process is followed as when BitLocker was first activated.

Microsoft hopes to simplify the process of implementing and managing BitLocker data encryption with the launch of Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Management (MBAM) 2.0 Beta 2.

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