Vole makes a mess Windows users are reporting BitLocker problems after installing last week's security update for Secure Boot. Patch KB5012170 was ...

The Windows 10 boot and shared data partitions somehow got encrypted with Bitlocker (and thus are inaccessible from the Win 8.1 install) after a repair shop swapped the motherboard.

Microsoft's own security researchers uncovered a set of of vulnerabilities in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), one ...

Microsoft is beefing up the security capability of Windows 10 IoT Core, the compact version of Windows intended for Internet-connected devices. Microsoft’s BitLocker data encryption technology ...

BitLocker can be enabled on a system without TPM version 1.2 or higher, provided BIOS or UEFI has the capability to read from a USB flash drive in a boot environment.

Per Microsoft's limitations:quote:Bitlocker cannot be used to encrypt the host volume containing VHD files used for native VHD boot, and bitlocker cannot be used on volumes contained inside a VHD ...

Microsoft is working on a fix. In the Windows Release Health notes, Microsoft writes that "devices can boot into Bitlocker recovery mode after installing the July updates".

BitLocker efficiently protects system data from cold boot attacks, but its encryption may create problems in system updates and firmware. Therefore, many of you may like to suspend it temporarily.