Secure Boot was once considered an unbreakable force protecting your PC. Now, it's vulnerable, and there's not an easy way to ...

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I always want to make sure my new Windows PC is protected against security threats. Here are five things I do with that goal in mind.

A new feature option has been spotted in Microsoft Copilot which allows the AI chatbot to gather information about how you use various Microsoft products. Windows Latest was the first to report on the ...

The feature is advertised as a way to reunite missing dogs with their owners, a noble cause indeed, but Search Party does this by turning individual Ring devices into a surveillance network. Each ...

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When Apple rolled out watchOS 11 this past fall, it brought a number of key features to your Apple Watch. Some of the standouts included the ability to pause your Activity Rings, change your workout ...

The mass killing of 14 people in San Bernardino in December 2015 saw the FBI trying to access what it described as “relevant and critical data” on the locked iPhone of one of the shooters. The agency ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

Microsoft confirmed it can hand over BitLocker recovery keys stored in the cloud under warrant, reviving debate over who controls encrypted data. Image: Simon Ray/Unsplash Microsoft is under scrutiny ...

The disclosure underscores how recovery keys stored in Microsoft’s cloud can be accessed under warrant, even when enterprise data is encrypted. Microsoft gave Windows users’ BitLocker encryption keys ...