Microsoft Defends BitLocker, Issues SP2 Updates
Microsoft defended its BitLocker data encryption tool last week after a hack was demonstrated that might affect it.
A presenter at the Black Hat Washington, D.C. conference in early February had compromised the trusted platform module (TPM) in a machine. Microsoft leverages TPM hardware in conjunction with its BitLocker drive encryption tool to help protect data from unauthorized access in mobile PCs.
Windows security blogger Paul Cooke assured the public that the BitLocker encryption tool in Windows 7 is up to snuff. "With our design for BitLocker in Windows 7, we took into account the theoretical possibility that a TPM might become compromised due to advanced attacks or because of poor designs and implementations," he wrote.
