HP, Dell, ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Acer, Samsung, LG, and Surface have published Secure Boot guidance as Microsoft's 2011 ...

HP users experienced a different problem. A BIOS update, which affects the low-level firmware that helps your computer start up, caused some systems to enter a BitLocker recovery loop. Instead of ...

Following our report, Microsoft quietly confirmed that Windows 11 KB5094126 accidentally broke OLE automation, which is used ...

The new Windows 11 KB5094126 update is one of this year’s biggest. One of its features is aimed at boosting CPU performance, but the update is reportedly crashing PCs instead. According to a report by ...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 update KB5094127 is causing BitLocker recovery key prompts on enterprise PCs with specific Group Policy configurations. PCWorld reports this primarily affects business systems ...

Microsoft has released a temporary mitigation for YellowKey, a Windows zero-day that can reportedly bypass BitLocker protections. Microsoft has moved to contain the newly disclosed Windows zero-day ...

Microsoft says it is considering a patch for a zero-day vulnerability, dubbed YellowKey, that allows attackers with access to a Windows device to bypass Bitlocker encryption protection and read and ...

Update 5/21: Since this article was released, recommend mitigations for YellowKey and other attacks have been released, as well as a full patch for BlueHammer. Nightmare-Eclipse, a cybersecurity ...

Microsoft added drive encryption to Windows with BitLocker, which is also intended to withstand physical attacks, thus intercepting cases where devices are stolen, for example. However, ...

The March update for Pixel phones introduced a boot loop bug for several users that quickly became recognized as a widespread issue, and not it looks like Google might finally have a fix for the bug.

Google is reportedly testing a beta update with affected users to fix the Pixel boot loop issue. Since April’s patch didn’t address the problem, the fix could arrive with the May 2026 Pixel update.

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