Zero-Day Exploit Against Windows BitLocker
Physical access requirements limit YellowKey's enterprise risk, but the bypass undermines Windows 11's default encryption for mobile workforce scenarios.
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It’s nasty , but it requires physical access to the computer: 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 decryption key, which is stored in a secured piece of hardware known as a trusted platform module (TPM). BitLocker is a mandatory protection
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