Microsoft issued security advisory ADV180028 on Tuesday for computer users that have self-encrypting solid-state drives (SSDs) that are ostensibly protected by Microsoft's BitLocker encryption scheme.

Microsoft’s full-disk encryption feature is not being widely used, even where it is part of the Windows operating system, according to a new survey released by security vendor Opswat. Microsoft added ...

In a not-so-subtle dig at the National Security Agency, Microsoft's Vice President of Trustworthy Computing, Matt Thomlinson, described the company's expanded encryption efforts as a way to help ...

Businesses should start leaning on vendors now to upgrade applications that use less than 1024-bit encryption before it’s too late. What is currently a voluntary upgrade request from Microsoft is ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft plans to encrypt more of its Internet traffic as the world's largest software company responds to revelations about online spying by the National Security Agency Top ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of Double Key Encryption for data created with Microsoft 365 applications. It's yet another Microsoft 365 data protection scheme, where one key gets stored in ...

Microsoft has announced it is adding new encryption support for its OneDrive cloud storage service and its Outlook.com email website, along with the opening of its first Transparency Center. For ...

Bad computer security can sometimes have a cascading effect, as researchers from the Netherlands discovered. They first spotted vulnerabilities in the embedded encryption of several SSD models from ...

Already available as an option, the new default encryption will ensure that your Bing searches and results will be protected from prying eyes, including advertisers. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Microsoft has denied claims first surfaced last week that it gave the U.S. government the ability to bypass its email and storage encryption or other security measures. The Guardian newspaper on ...