Day: January 22, 2011

Microsoft Lowering Prices on Older Xboxes

Microsoft apparently held a media roundtable Monday night after its Xbox press event, confirming that it will eventually phase out its existing models in favor of the new “slim” model. My colleague Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat reported: “The new Xbox 360 with a 250-gigabyte hard drive and the smaller black design will sell for $299,” […]

Passware Warns of Microsoft Risk

Password-recovery experts at Passware warned Friday that the security of Microsoft’s Bitlocker whole-disk encryption is seriously compromised on a computer configured to use sleep mode. The same is true of the open-source TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool. The company’s Passware Kit Forensic 1.03 can “decrypt hard disks encrypted with BitLocker or TrueCrypt in a matter of […]

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