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The last decade-plus has seen a wealth of advancements designed to secure data at the microprocessor level, but a team of academic researchers recently punched through those defenses with a tiny ...

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With so much hacking, scamming, theft, and spying in the digital world, encryption is becoming more popular. You see it in messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, in secure connections to websites ...

What to do: Users should have their BitLocker recovery keys ready before installing the October security update for Windows 10 and 11. If the update triggers the security feature and users cannot ...

I was recently talking to someone I know about using Windows Defender to scan their system, and they decided to use the "offline scan" option (the one that reboots and does a scan before loading ...

You can choose to disable BitLocker on your Windows 11 or 10 PC from the Control Panel or Windows Settings. Besides that, you can turn off BitLocker aka Device Encryption using command-line tools like ...

The error “Windows RE cannot be enabled on a volume with BitLocker Drive Encryption Enabled” prevents you from enabling the Windows Recovery Environment. WinRE is ...

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You wouldn't use a phone that wasn't passcode-protected, nor a personal PC. So it's somewhat surprising that most people don't think twice about securing the contents of a USB storage device. If ...

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