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 ...

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that’s the direct successor to the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt. Users ...

I'm thinking about how I secure my portable and external drives and wonder how others are doing it. Long ago I started using TrueCrypt then VeraCrypt to encrypt entire drives before using them for ...

We’ve all lost a flash drive or two. Whether it was a cheap USB drive containing some promotional material, or top secret one detailing the security protocol pertaining to a certain Queen of England’s ...

Bad computer security can sometimes have a cascading effect, as researchers from the Netherlands discovered. They first spotted vulnerabilities in the embedded encryption of several SSD models from ...

Microsoft BitLocker is a fine volume encryption tool only marred by unnecessarily complex hardware and software requirements. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or ...

Microsoft issued security advisory ADV180028 on Tuesday for computer users that have self-encrypting solid-state drives (SSDs) that are ostensibly protected by Microsoft's BitLocker encryption scheme.

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that’s the direct successor of the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt. Users ...

Microsoft BitLocker is a full-volume encryption feature that’s been included in business versions of Microsoft Windows for the past 14 years. With BitLocker, you can encrypt your entire drive so that ...