Microsoft has terminated VeraCrypt and WireGuard developer accounts, blocking Windows driver updates and risking boot failures for encrypted systems.

The maker of the popular open source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may ...

The first version of Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) relied on Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for authentication; the current version does not. We strongly encourage the use of the newest version.

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 has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows ...

It seems obvious in retrospect, but thanks to the performance gains in modern SSDs, Microsoft has started rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker capabilities in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025.

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt data without overloading them. According to Cisco Talos researchers, ...

Microsoft has updated Azure App Service for Linux so that the foundation operating system is Ubuntu, instead of Debian. Here's everything you need to know. Microsoft has announced that its Azure App ...