BitLocker Drive Encryption is meant to protect data on computers when lost or stolen. The full disk encryption feature is designed to work with a chip called the Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, which offers protected storage of encryption keys...
Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure. This opens up the possibility of the inadvertent disclosure of this...
The discussion centres on BitLocker Drive Encryption, a planned security feature for Vista, the update to the Windows operating system. BitLocker encrypts data to protect it if the computer is lost or stolen.
He pitched BitLocker, a disk drive encryption feature in the higher-end version of Vista, as a way to lock down the data on a PC. Only last week, Microsoft released Windows Vista and Office 2007, promoted as the most secure versions of the...
Nicholas Evans, European IT director for Key Equipment Finance, backed silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign, which calls for a law forcing public and private sector organisations to inform regulators and customers if personal data has been...
Would such a law cover disclosure of email addresses? I don't know why Microsoft don't do the blatantly obvious thing, allow downgrade rights on any Windows Vista to XP. Microsoft gets the Vista sales they want, Joe Public gets what they want with XP.