encryption

Original release date: October 18, 2021 Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Use Link Removed. • Use Link Removed. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note...

Hi! I’m not good with computers and I really need help. My PC (Microsoft surface book) asks a bitlocker key, but I don’t remember I ever made that. I tried with the key found on my Microsoft account but it doesn’t work. Also, the ID key in my account and the ID key in the computer are...

This appeared this morning. I don't remember encrypting any files or getting a key to do so. If they exist, how do I find them? Thanks :(

I have read that Win11 will require that BitLocker is installed and activated using the newer v2.0 TPM chip. Using no TPM chip, or the v1.2 chip will not allow Win11 to operate. Win11 seems to gets more complicated with more potential for backdoors. It will need to be out for quite a while...

Hi, I am struggling with this installation and looking for help from somebody that already did it. I am using Lenovo ThinkCentre with my TV as primary "Internet" computer. Because I have almoust empty 1 TB Nvme drive I had the idea that I will shrink my boot volume (the only one on disk) and...

Original release date: May 11, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Microsoft announced on Monday that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now supports Windows 10 on Arm devices. This expanded support is part of the company’s efforts to extend these capabilities across endpoints. Arm devices are designed to take full advantage of the protections available in Windows...

Hi, I like to listen to audiobooks on YouTube , there are some YouTbue video download sites out there however they normally have a limit to the size eg 2 hours, are there any free proxy sites that can let me do this without my ISP knowing what is being downloaded? Thanks in advance.

Dear community, I am hoping to get answers from users who have done this with success. Because of the smaller form factor, I prefer to get a USB-C "1TB USB Stick" than a "Small sized External SSD". The fact deletion of files from USB stick don't go to recycle bin, does not bother me! Question...

Dear all, Before you can help me here you must understand fundamentally what Bitlocker is about. Bitlocker: ------------------------------------------------------------------- The idea with Bitlocker is that you do not enter a bitlocker password when you boot up. Your TPM does this for you. As...

Hi all. I have a dell xps running windows 10. It is equipped with a 512GB SSD which is encrypted using Bitlocker. Due to the fact that I basically locked out of my pc because I do not have with me the recovery ID, and I am in the process of selling the pc, I was wondering if I could export the...

Original release date: October 28, 2020 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory...

How to add RC4 encryption successor to Internet Explorer 11? - Windows 7 Help Forums Due to some reasons I (have to) use occasionally Internet Explorer 11. It still works for most of the websites except some advanced which disabled RC4 encryption. For webpages from these server I got an...

Hello, I have a laptop joined to a domain (windows 10). I'm part of Administrators group but not Domain Admins. Such laptop has a 2.5'' mechanical hard drive (500 GB) encrypted by bitlocker and it's quite slow. It has 3 partitions: the first is Windows RE, the second is system reserved about 500...

Full disclosure I posted this on MS forums with no hits. Hi and Thank you, No files are saved to USB when generating protector key in powershell (Admin) or CMD (Admin). I am the only user for this system and have full Administrator rights. I have a home built PC Win 10 Pro 1909 that has a...

Hello All, I have windows 8.1 pro, Before 4 years my friend did clean install of windows 8.1pro from windows 7 , I have 5-6 documents which i had encrypted with efs . My friend forgot to take back up of efs key certificate, Now i can't open without efs key certificate, Please help me to...

I was using bitlocker for my personal data.I also was changing my bitlocker password every week. I did not save my key because childerns at home used key to open bitlocker password. Now i forgot my password as well as i have no recovery key. I tried to recover key through CMD prompt. I found...

ok today i was trying to get the fingerprint scanner to work and it messed up my pc so i had to do a complete restore. i one time i had a bunch of security programs installed and i'm thinking they made the pc sluggish. so a few weeks ago i took everything off and installed norton antivirus from...

I generally use a VPN when on the Internet. I'm wondering if I'm logged on to a secure site (HTTPS), does using a VPN provide any extra security, or is it not necessary at all? Thank you.

Along with Tuesday’s release of the Windows 10 November 2019 Update, small and medium-sized businesses can find updates for Windows 10 Pro, which includes ways for IT pros and business owners to better manage their organization’s devices. As support ends for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020...