The maker of the popular open-source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers.

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Software King of the “World Microsoft has just kneecapped VeraCrypt. Vole has terminated the account used to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving Windows updates dead in the water. For ...

Microsoft has banned the developer accounts of high-profile open-source projects, leaving them unable to publish software ...

Microsoft is facing complaints that it mysteriously suspended developer accounts used by the free, open-source disk encryption software Veracrypt and the VPN protocol WireGuard, preventing them from ...

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Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt developer accounts without warning, blocking Windows security updates for the popular disk encryption software.

Microsoft has suspended developer accounts used to maintain multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification and no way to quickly reinstate them, effectively blocking them from ...

Microsoft has locked the lead developers of two prominent open source security projects out of their accounts. The company says it blocked the VeraCrypt and WireGuard developers' accounts due to their ...

If you noticed there have been fewer updates to VeraCrypt, a popular app for drive encryption, its maker, Mounir Idrassi, explained their unfortunate situation in a new forum post. According to Mounir ...

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The developers of the disk encryption software VeraCrypt and the VPN software WireGuard have recently been confronted with the fact that Microsoft has suspended their developer accounts. This made it ...