A zero day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare Eclipse. It reliably bypasses default Windows 11 deployments of BitLocker, the full volume encryption protection Microsoft provides to make disk contents off limits to anyone without the...

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