Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system requires a heretofore little-known PC security feature, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). It could be cause for concern if ...

Until the release of Windows 11, the upgrade proposition for Windows operating systems was rather straightforward: you considered whether the current version of Windows on your system still fulfilled ...

TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It is a technology designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions to the supported devices. A TPM is a chip and is one of the required hardware ...

The reasons behind Microsoft's decision to permit Windows 11 upgrades on non-compliant hardware are not entirely clear. Possible explanations include the company's goal to increase the adoption of ...

A hot potato: The Trusted Platform Module standard describes a dedicated cryptography chip designed to manage many security-related tasks in a computer. The standard was introduced in 2009, but ...

October 2025 is an important month for Microsoft, or more aptly, an important month for those who are still running Windows 10 as it is when end of support for the operating system is set. As such, ...

For most people, Windows 10 security updates are slated to stop on October 14, 2025, just over 10 months from today. That could end up being a serious security problem, given that Windows 10 is still ...

Microsoft is investigating a bug triggering security alerts on systems with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) processor after enabling BitLocker. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts ...