It's been a long time and glad to see the Ars Hive Mind™ is still alive and well. I have two questions. First is in regards to TPM: I used group policy to bypass the TPM requirement and up until now ...

I wrote about the BitLocker feature in Microsoft Windows Vista almost two years ago, when Vista had just been released. With Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft implemented a few enhancements to the ...

A BitLocker bypass vulnerability lets thieves read your encrypted Windows files in 2026. Here's the zero-day flaw, who's ...

So I had a win10 PC, updated, running OK with bitlocker deployed. I've been chasing subtle power management bugs, and I decided to update my bios. So I did that, but then bitlocker wanted a recovery ...

Fix 0xC004D307, The security processor reported that the maximum allowed number of re-arms has been exceeded. You must ...

A recent Windows 11 update is causing significant problems for some users during system startup and in everyday use. As ...

Microsoft has released a temporary mitigation for YellowKey, a Windows zero-day that can reportedly bypass BitLocker ...

A few weeks ago, the BBC News published a story that was literally true and hopelessly wrong. Under the headline UK holds Microsoft security talks, political reporter Ollie Stone-Lee wrote: UK ...

Trusted Platform Modules and BitLocker Drive Encryption can protect Windows 7 computers against a bootkit attack unveiled last week but these technologies won’t be available on a large portion of ...

If you’re on Windows 11, there’s a good chance you’re using BitLocker to protect your system files and personal data. BitLocker is enabled on most Windows 11 PCs by default, and that’s a good thing ...

Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using Trusted Platform Module chips after Black Hat researchers demonstrated a hack of them last week. TPM, the bases of Windows hard drive encryption ...