For years, we've been told that encryption is the gold standard for digital privacy. If data is encrypted, it is supposed to be locked away from hackers, companies and governments alike. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mass killing of 14 people in San Bernardino in December 2015 saw the FBI trying to access what it described as “relevant and critical data” on the locked iPhone of one of the shooters. The agency ...

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 confirmed it can hand over BitLocker recovery keys stored in the cloud under warrant, reviving debate over who controls encrypted data. Image: Simon Ray/Unsplash Microsoft is under scrutiny ...

The disclosure underscores how recovery keys stored in Microsoft’s cloud can be accessed under warrant, even when enterprise data is encrypted. Microsoft gave Windows users’ BitLocker encryption keys ...

Microsoft takes security seriously, but recent events highlight the limits of that protection when legal orders enter the picture. After hackers abused SharePoint for phishing campaigns and found ways ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows ...

Microsoft handed over keys to BitLocker-encrypted data stored on its servers during an FBI probe last year, granting access to data on three separate laptops. BitLocker, a built-in data protection ...

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