Using encrypted files and drives is normally something you can do without even thinking about it. In most cases, simply logging into your computer is all that is needed to access the data. However, in ...

BitLocker is a hard drive encryption feature available in Windows Pro and Enterprise editions. After locking your hard drive partition with BitLocker, you can unlock it using the BitLocker key. In ...

A new ransomware strain called ShrinkLocker creates a new boot partition to encrypt corporate systems using Windows BitLocker. ShrinkLocker, named so because it creates the boot volume by shrinking ...

Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

In this post, we will see how to fix the error message, ‘This volume is locked by BitLocker Drive Encryption, Code 10‘ on a Windows 11/10 PC. Some users have ...

As per my thread in the Audio/Visual Club last December, I have been having ongoing issues with an HP Omen 45L gaming desktop that I bought in October last year. The display would randomly go blank, ...

Windows security expert and infrastructure trainer Sami Laiho has discovered a simple method of bypassing BitLocker during the Windows 10 update procedure. Laiho says that by holding SHIFT + F10 while ...

Professional versions of Windows, such as Windows 11 Pro, include a storage encryption feature called BitLocker. A hardware-accelerated version of BitLocker that utilizes the SoC's encryption ...

You might have encountered encryption on messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. It is nothing but securing your messages. When your messages are encrypted, they can only be read by the ...