Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

A privacy promise or just a marketing buzzword?

Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

Earlier this year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant requesting recovery keys for encrypted data stored on three laptops. Microsoft complied. Marking the first known instance in which the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legislating bitcoin purchases by the U.S. government might be exciting, but technical blockchain improvements remain essential for wider adoption. Even as industry CEOs and U.S. legislators gather in ...

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