Microsoft has disabled a fix for a BitLocker security feature bypass vulnerability due to firmware incompatibility issues that were causing patched Windows devices to go into BitLocker recovery mode.

Password theft, by the billion, has been in the news recently, as has Microsoft’s desire to replace the security measure for all users. Security experts have now warned that a vulnerability impacting ...

Microsoft is no stranger to skepticism regarding its various security offerings. It's fought some highly-public battles in the past, and now finds itself mired in another one, defending its ...

Microsoft has warned that some systems may boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the October 2025 Windows security updates. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts storage drives ...

Microsoft has fixed a security bug that made Windows PCs boot into BitLocker recovery, instead of the regular boot-up process. BitLocker is a full disk encryption feature included with some Windows ...

A deep dive into Microsoft's BitLocker full-disk encryption technology was posted by Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept on Thursday. According to Lee's piece, the main concerns of the security community ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. As if things weren’t bad enough for Microsoft Windows users ...

As of the moment, the technology is being used in Microsoft's very own Azure Sphere in the cloud. Additionally, as organizations are still struggling to maintain the current hybrid workforce, security ...

BitLocker, an encryption program from Microsoft, offers data protection for the whole disk in an efficient method that is easy to implement, seamless to the user, and can be managed by systems admins.