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 ...

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...

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 ...

“Shut it down! Shut it all down! And pay them what they are asking!” It was 5:55 AM on May 7, 2021, in Alpharetta, Georgia. Minutes earlier, an employee of The Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) ...

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 ...

Apple appears close to supporting end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, almost a year after the GSM Association said it was working to implement the privacy feature for messages sent between ...

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I've long researched to make this working for me and i want to share my solution to make it possible to encrypt/decrypt data from/to CryptoJS and PHP. This works with CryptoJS 3.x and PHP with openssl ...

One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable ...

A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system. By Pranav Baskar For a group of ...

What’s happened? X announced the launch of Chat via its official channel this week, signifying the complete replacement of its legacy DM system with a revamped, encrypted communication layer. The ...