Microsoft may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon valid request - here's how to keep it safe ...

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 ...

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 has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI after receiving a valid legal demand tied to a federal investigation involving three laptops in Guam. The disclosure has ...

BitLocker encryption keys provided to law enforcement by Microsoft raise concerns about digital privacy as encrypted data ...

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

ストレージ全体を暗号化してデータを守る機能「BitLocker」は、一部の「Windows」エディションで利用可能な標準保護機能だ。PC紛失や盗難などのリスクに備えたデータ保護を実現する一方、その暗号化を解除するための鍵を適切に管理しておかないと、PCに ...

Windowsのファイルシステム暗号化機能である「BitLocker」は、PCのセキュリティを高めてくれる反面、知らないうちに有効になっていて、突然聞いたこともない「回復キー」が求められPCを起動できなくなる、といったトラブルに遭うケースが少なくない。 実はこうした問題はWindows 11 ProやEnterpriseの ...

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 ...

The Windows security updates that Microsoft distributed for the October Patch Day can cause the Bitlocker recovery to start when the computer is restarted. The boot process can then only be completed ...