There is an abundance of free encryption tools, but if you’re running Windows, BitLocker is the only tool most people need, ...

If you have the BitLocker recovery key, you can unlock the BitLocker encrypted hard drive partition through the Control Panel. However, if your Windows OS is corrupted and you cannot boot into Windows ...

Microsoft is giving BitLocker in Windows 11 a serious upgrade, and this time the focus is on speed and stronger key ...

Let’s delve into these steps in detail. To get started, search for gpedit or gpedit.msc in the Taskbar search box and click on the individual search result to open the Local Group Policy Editor on ...

I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

Data encryption makes it nearly impossible for someone to access a protected file without the proper decryption key or password. Many apps use encryption to keep your data safe, including password ...

Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker is on the way with some future updates to Windows 11, but it'll require next-gen processors to ...

Microsoft has started rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker capabilities in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ...

I'm not sure if anyone saw the news, but apparently Crucial's and Samsung's self-encrypting drives have very weak keys or key verification and is easily bypassed to get access to the encrypted data.