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BitLocker encrypts your hard drive and requires a key to decrypt it. Microsoft may give your key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Don't save your key to the cloud; instead, store it locally or ...

Storing recovery keys with Microsoft allows the company to unlock your disk. As someone that did helpdesk for consumers for a long time, MS having the code was the only reason we were able to recover ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

Trump in Davos: President Trump said Wednesday that he had reached the framework of a possible deal with NATO over Greenland’s future, pulling the United States back from the brink of military and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated November 25 with a new warning from America’s Cyber ...

SHORE. POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS DISPATCHED TO A SWAMP WHERE SOMEBODY WAS STUCK. OUR RHONDELLA RICHARDSON IS LIVE IN MANCHESTER BY THE SEA WITH THE TOOL FIRST RESPONDERS USED TO PULL IT OFF. RHONDELLA ...

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt data without overloading them. According to Cisco Talos researchers, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The IRS is recommitting to its decades-old partnership with tax prep companies as the main option for Americans to file their taxes ...