New Windows devices have disk encryption turned on by default. But what happens to your recovery key? Micah Lee. December 28 2015, 9:57 a.m. Share . Copy link ...

If you’re a Windows user, you may have been surprised to learn that from an update in May 2024 onward your system drive will be encrypted by default. Linux users have been presented with the choice to ...

There's nothing worse than realizing your external hard drive has been lost or stolen, when it contains sensitive personal or company data that could get you in trouble should it fall into the wrong ...

If you have Windows 10 Home and want to encrypt your disk, but don't want the recovery key to be stored in OneDrive, that's OK; you can do it. Contrary to what The Intercept wrote, ...

The Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows 7 and Vista offer a disk-encryption utility called BitLocker, but it can be somewhat tricky to set up. DiskCryptor’s main screen.

Both Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Professional include some disk encryption features, but Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption is much more powerful, flexible, and configurable on Windows 11 Pro.

If a third-party disk encryption software is incompatible with the next Windows 10 Feature Update, it may cause the upgrade to crash. Here's the workaround.

BitLocker, Microsoft's disk encryption tool, could be trivially bypassed prior to last week's patches, according to recent security research. The feature, baked into Windows Vista and later ...

With Windows XP or older versions, this means adding on full disk encryption utilities from vendors like GuardianEdge, PGP, PointSec or SafeBoot for $100 to $200 per system.

If you’re rocking a new Windows 10 PC or have upgraded to the latest version of the OS, chances are your disk encryption key has been uploaded to Microsoft’s servers — which means you’re ...

Headlines every few weeks shout "Laptop lost with 60,000 customer records" or "25,000 Social Security numbers on stolen notebook" or something equally disturbing. Given these leaks usually involve ...