Microsoft has confirmed its practice of surrendering BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI upon the presentation of judicial warrants, provided such keys reside within its infrastructure. This admission follows a formal entreaty from American...
A serious incident caused by ransomware has struck Romania’s largest coal-fired power producer, Oltenia Energy Complex. The attack, detected during the night of December 26, disrupted digital systems and temporarily rendered several internal services...
Microsoft has introduced a new hardware-accelerated version of its built-in BitLocker encryption in Windows 11. The feature is designed to boost performance and reduce CPU load by offloading heavy cryptographic operations to dedicated security...
Romania’s National Administration of Water Resources has fallen victim to a large-scale cyberattack that resulted in the encryption of roughly one thousand workstations and servers. The breach occurred over the past weekend and affected...
Researchers at SySS GmbH have disclosed a critical vulnerability in the Windows Boot Manager dubbed BitPixie. The flaw permits attackers to bypass BitLocker protections and attain full administrative access to a system. At the...
Microsoft has issued a warning about two flaws in Windows BitLocker that could allow a local attacker—or malware already running on a machine—to escalate privileges and seize control of the system. Both defects are...
In the latest security update for Windows Server 2019, released on July 8, a critical flaw has emerged—one that threatens the stability of entire clustered infrastructures. Patch KB5062557 disrupts the proper functioning of the...
Cracking BitLocker’s protection in just 43 seconds using equipment costing less than $10 has become feasible, casting doubt on the reliability of one of the most popular hard drive encryption methods in the Windows...
