NASA Employees Warned About Windows Vista Security Loophole

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Computer security specialists at NASA have warned their employees of a loophole in the encryption feature BitLocker, only present in Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. According to a document posted on NASA's Web site, BitLocker’s encryption can be bypassed if a user leaves their computers in "sleep" mode. Only if the computer is shut down or set to “hibernate”, users are required to insert a USB authentication key into their PCs or laptops to in order to boot up.

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