Microsoft stores the hard drive encryption key in customers' online accounts by default. It can be accessed there with a court order.

Microsoft stores the hard drive encryption key in customers' online accounts by default. It can be accessed there by court ...

Forbes reports that Microsoft complied with an FBI request for decryption keys to a suspect's personal laptops last year.

Microsoft handed over keys to BitLocker-encrypted data stored on its servers during an FBI probe last year, granting access ...

Microsoft Entra ID transitions to FIDO2 passkey profiles in March 2026, adding synced passkey support and new passkeyType schema for global tenants.

Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

Microsoft provided FBI with BitLocker keys from cloud backups to decrypt laptops in a Guam fraud case, revealing a legal ...

If your machine is uploading your BitLocker keys to Microsoft, Microsoft can and will give them to law enforcement, it turns ...

Handing over BitLocker keys has to be the final straw.

As the first major tech company to comply with government demands for encrypted data, Microsoft sets a dangerous precedent.

For Windows' BitLocker drive encryption, performance has been a long-standing pain point, especially as high-speed NVMe drives have become more dominant in the market. Fortunately, Microsoft has taken ...

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by leveraging the capabilities of system-on-a-chip and CPU. BitLocker is the ...