With so much hacking, scamming, theft, and spying in the digital world, encryption is becoming more popular. You see it in messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, in secure connections to websites ...

SanDisk is going small -- very small -- with its newest flash drive. The Extreme Fit is a tiny USB-C device that comes in five storage sizes, from 64GB to 1TB, at a cost of about $15 to $110 based on ...

In what's becoming all too common of late, there's a new bug affecting Windows 11 (and Windows 10) users. And when I say a "new bug," I mean one that we've seen before a couple of times, which we ...

Microsoft just released a service alert informing users that the October 2025 Windows security update might trigger BitLocker recovery for some Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, as well as Windows 10 22H2 ...

What to do: Users should have their BitLocker recovery keys ready before installing the October security update for Windows 10 and 11. If the update triggers the security feature and users cannot ...

After installing one of the several Windows updates that were released on October 14th or later, many Windows users have reported being asked to reset their systems via BitLocker Recovery, which ...

I was recently talking to someone I know about using Windows Defender to scan their system, and they decided to use the "offline scan" option (the one that reboots and does a scan before loading ...

The flash crash, described by Bitwise portfolio manager Jonathan Man as possibly the worst liquidation event in crypto history, erased $65 billion in open interest and reset positioning to levels last ...

Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. The BitLocker Recovery Error with a Trace ID (e.g., XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX) occurs when Windows detects a potential ...

Republished on May 21 with new information for Windows users on applying update. Microsoft has just confirmed an emergency update for Windows 10, after an increasing number of users reported May’s ...