BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico(tomshardware.com)

85 points by garypdx 2 years ago | 39 comments

Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%(tomshardware.com)

52 points by belter 3 years ago | 53 comments

GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits(tomshardware.com)

464 points by possibilistic 5 months ago | 218 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting that GitHub banned a security researcher who posted Windows zero-day exploits and threatened further retaliation against Microsoft.

Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit(techspot.com)

523 points by nolok 5 months ago | 223 comments

TechSpot news article about a researcher's claim that Microsoft built a BitLocker backdoor, with a released YellowKey exploit that bypasses encryption via USB and WinRE.

Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle(tomshardware.com)

49 points by sbulaev 3 months ago | 17 comments

Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours(tomshardware.com)

119 points by Ozarkian 1 year ago | 34 comments