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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 ...

I wrote about the BitLocker feature in Microsoft Windows Vista almost two years ago, when Vista had just been released. With Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft implemented a few enhancements to the ...

TPM sniffing attacks, which we have covered before, are possible even on modern Intel-powered hardware running the latest Windows 11. Such attacks may however be preventable by Microsoft's Pluton.

So I had a win10 PC, updated, running OK with bitlocker deployed. I've been chasing subtle power management bugs, and I decided to update my bios. So I did that, but then bitlocker wanted a recovery ...

Every Patch Tuesday, there’s a moment where you hover over that “Install” button and wonder what you’re getting into. The ...

A few weeks ago, the BBC News published a story that was literally true and hopelessly wrong. Under the headline UK holds Microsoft security talks, political reporter Ollie Stone-Lee wrote: UK ...

Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using Trusted Platform Module chips after Black Hat researchers demonstrated a hack of them last week. Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using ...

Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own ...

Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using Trusted Platform Module chips after Black Hat researchers demonstrated a hack of them last week. TPM, the bases of Windows hard drive encryption ...