Take your daily dose of sensational headlines in the IT press with a grain of salt! In the last couple of weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz with news that (Microsoft’s) BitLocker drive partition ...

My BitLocker enabled computer won't boot without my USB.

TPM sniffing attacks, which we have covered before, are possible even on modern Intel-powered hardware running the latest Windows 11. Such attacks may however be preventable by Microsoft's Pluton.

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I have a nice gaming grade PC that I use for sensitive stuff (banking etc) as well and that therefore I have been less able to use for actual gaming. Some of the things I want to play - MiHoYo games - ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 in 2021, its new, stringent hardware compatibility test included checking for the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) -- specifically, one that meets the ...

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Microsoft on Friday downplayed the risk of using Trusted Platform Module chips after Black Hat researchers demonstrated a hack of them last week. TPM, the bases of Windows hard drive encryption ...

Microsoft added a reason why features like TPM and Secure Boot are important on the latest version of Windows 11. Microsoft, time and time again, has explained why features like TPM (Trusted Platform ...

TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It is a technology designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions to the supported devices. A TPM is a chip and is one of the required hardware ...