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I’m selling a 4-year-old Dell PC with Windows 10 and two SSDs and I want to be sure that nobody can recover anything from my personal deleted files. So far I’ve done the following.
Completely Bitlocker encrypt both disks,… Continue reading How sufficient are these steps to prevent deleted SSD files from being recovered?
Are there any non-obvious mitigations for the big DMA-attack revealed last year and demonstrated in this video by F-Secure?
We know that Microsoft has published some material pertaining to DMA-attacks, but, from my reading o… Continue reading Non-obvious Mitigations for This DMA-Attack Demonstrated by F-Secure
I’m attempting to ensure maximum security for my PC. I’m running Windows 10 Pro on a business-class HP notebook.
Unless I’m mistaken, I understand that both a BIOS password and the BitLocker pre-boot PIN can help to prevent DMA attacks. I… Continue reading BIOS Password vs. BitLocker Pre-boot PIN
How does Windows use the TPM for BitLocker encryption without an attacker being able to do the same?
From this FAQ, I understand that BitLocker uses the following keys to encrypt the hard-drive:
Full volume encryption… Continue reading How does Windows use the TPM for BitLocker encryption without an attacker being able to do the same?
I am worried I will lose my data while the drive decrypts. It is now at 23.2% encrypted and continues dropping to 23.1 etc.
Do I have to wait until it reaches 0% encryped before I can turn my PC off? What will happen if ther… Continue reading I turned off BitLocker encryption on my 5TB drive and now it continues to decrypt for days!
Microsoft has introduced a new password-protected folder within its OneDrive online file storage service that will allow you to keep your sensitive and important files protected and secured with an extra layer of authentication.
Dubbed Personal Vault,… Continue reading Microsoft Adds 2FA-Protected “Personal Vault” Within OneDrive Cloud Storage
A Windows 10 laptop’s hard drive was encrypted with Bitlocker and has been physically removed from the laptop and is now being used as an external device. The Bitlocker recovery key is used to access this hard drive as an ext… Continue reading Deleting Windows Files from a Bitlocker Hard Drive now used as an External Device
If I do not understand wrong from this post and Wikipedia page of the BitLocker and TPM, by default, BitLocker uses symmetric cryptography like AES. However, TPM is capable of performing RSA encryption.
Given that, the RSA ke… Continue reading Why does BitLocker not use RSA?
Will enabling additional authentication on startup provide any extra security with Bitlocker? At the moment, my laptop boots straight into a Windows login where I use a pin. If I chose to not use pin, and a complex password, … Continue reading Bitlocker, does additional authentication at startup with TPM device provide any extra security?
My laptop is encrypted with BitLocker with TPM-Only protection and Secure Boot is enabled. Since I do not have any UEFI password set to prevent changes to the UEFI firmware settings, will an attacker still be able to read and… Continue reading BitLocker Encrypted Hard drive without UEFI/BIOS Password set?