Ars Technica

Using BitLocker without TPM / veracrypt vs bitlocker

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 ...
Hosted on MSN

I started using VeraCrypt to protect my files and I should have sooner

I recently built a new PC with Windows 11 Home and noticed it doesn't have access to BitLocker, unlike my other machines and my work laptop. This got me thinking about my file security situation, and ...
PC World

Critical flaws found in open-source encryption software VeraCrypt

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 ...
Ars Technica

Portable HDD and SDD security and encryption

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 ...
Redmond Magazine

Report Cites Security Concerns in Microsoft's BitLocker Disk Encryption

A deep dive into Microsoft's BitLocker full-disk encryption technology was posted by Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept on Thursday. According to Lee's piece, the main concerns of the security community ...
Computerworld

Critical flaws found in open-source encryption software VeraCrypt

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 ...