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

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

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

If you want to store Bitlocker recovery keys in Active Directory, follow the steps below. Configure GPO to store BitLocker Recovery information in Active Directory Domain Services Enable BitLocker ...

A decision by Microsoft to supply BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI has drawn renewed attention to how encryption systems are designed - and whether storing keys in the cloud weakens their security.

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

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 ...

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 ...