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Windows updates have destroyed countless PCs—here's how I protect mine

Two steps to safeguarding your data and avoid getting locked out of your PC ...
TheStreet.com

Google reveals major 2029 quantum threat for digital wallets

Google has issued a stark warning: the encryption protecting the world’s banks, governments, and personal data could be broken by 2029. In a report published on March 25, the tech giant urged ...
HotHardware

FBI Director Confirms Bureau Is Buying Private Data To Track Americans

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed in a Senate hearing on Wednesday, "We do purchase commercially available information that's consistent with the Constitution and the ...
GitHub

bitlocker-drive-encryption

A C# Windows Forms application to manage BitLocker-encrypted drives. Features include drive detection, lock/unlock with password or Windows Hello, secure password storage using DPAPI, auto-elevation, ...
InfoQ

Cilium at Ten Years: Stronger Encryption, Safer Policies, and Clearer Visibility for Large Clusters

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Soroosh Khodami discusses why we aren't ready ...
Redmond Pie

Microsoft’s Bitlocker Encryption Keys Given To The FBI Set A Worrying Precedent

Microsoft was asked last year to give the FBI access to the encryption keys used by BitLocker to protect data on three laptops. The company complied and warned that it receives around 20 similar ...
ZDNet

Microsoft may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon valid request - here's how to keep it safe

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IEEE

Encryption-Decryption-Based Bounded Filtering for 2-D Systems Under Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanism

Abstract: This paper investigates the bounded filtering problem for two-dimensional (2-D) discrete systems with encryption-decryption mechanism (EDM) and dynamic event-triggered mechanism (ETM).
Ars Technica

How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft

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 ...
TechSpot

Lawsuit alleges Meta can read WhatsApp messages despite encryption

Ripple effect: Questions about whether WhatsApp's encryption works as Meta describes have taken center stage in a new international lawsuit filed in a US federal court, where plaintiffs allege that ...
Homeland Security Today

Microsoft Gave FBI Set of Bitlocker Encryption Keys to Unlock Suspects’ Laptops

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 ...