Protect your PC and storage drive from unauthorized access. Here’s how and why I enable BitLocker on all my Windows computers ...

She called at 7:45 in the morning. Bay Area consultant. Lives in Red Bluff, works remotely. Her clients do not care where she is sitting when the deadline arrives. She had a presentation due. She had ...

If BitLocker is asking for Recovery Key after Windows Update, and you don't have the BitLocker Recovery Key, see this post ...

Some Windows 11 PCs hit BitLocker recovery after the April 2026 update. Here's what's causing it and how to fix this problem.

A Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday update is locking some Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 administrators out of their own machines. After installing the KB5082063 security update, released on ...

Locking down individual files is great, but a blanket encryption will prevent anyone from getting their paws on your files.

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.

Microsoft ended Windows 10 support back in October of 2025, and at the time, a key OS feature had broken. If you are a regular Neowin reader, you probably know that Windows has its fair share of major ...

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 ...

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 ...