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Microsoft Windows BitLocker Vulnerability Exposes Passwords—Act Now

Security experts have warned Windows BitLocker vulnerability could expose sensitive data in RAM, including passwords—what you need to do.

Security experts have now warned that a vulnerability impacting Microsoft’s Windows BitLocker encryption system could expose sensitive data, including your passwords, in unencrypted form. Let’s put that right by looking at it through the eyes of two security experts as it’s actually a pretty nasty one that could expose unencrypted data by exploiting an issue with how Windows BitLocker stores hibernation images in RAM. “This presents a significant potential impact,” Breen warned, “as RAM can contain sensitive data such as passwords, and credentials, that may have been in open documents or browser sessions and can all be recovered with free tools from hibernation files.”

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