Given Apple-supplied password reset tools, you may have concerns about the possibility of these being used to override a FileVault-protected volume.

OS X: FileVault does a great job of protecting your Mac. Every time you boot up, it asks for your password. If you're troubleshooting or providing remote support, though, entering it every time is ...

FileVault is a security feature on a Mac that encrypts all the files and data. We take a look at how to encrypt and protect your data with FileVault on a Mac.

A bug in OS X 10.7.3 exposes legacy FileVault users, but there are some workarounds to prevent this from happening.

You can recover a lost FileVault password or erase a FileVault drive, losing everything but regaining the ability to use the system.

Have you dusted off an old MacBook, only to realize that you can't remember its password? If so, you're in luck. Resetting a MacBook password is pretty simple.

FileVault 2 is a huge improvement over the original FileVault implementation, offering whole disk encryption with no noticeable performance penalty. The only downside is that every account on the ...

Among a raft of fixes and improvements for SMB, WebDAV, and other networking services, the OS X 10.7.4 update also disables a debug switch that wrote passwords for certain FileVault and network ...

How to fix the problem The only curative solution until Apple patches the problem is to change the password on a FileVault account after every system restart or when switching accounts to log in.

Apple has released OS X Lion 10.7.4. The update includes performance improvements as well as a bunch of fixes, including the FileVault bug that was recently widely covered across the Web.