Published May 13, 2026, 5:08 PM EDT Quentyn is a career tech journalist with nearly two decades of experience. He has written thousands of stories for publications such as The Verge , Forbes , Consumer Reports, and Business Insider . Quentyn specializes in reporting about mobile technology (including smartphones, tablets,  wearables, and accessories), home theater, gaming, computing, and cameras. In his free time, you can find him abusing any variety of gaming controllers or learning about his latest muses (most recently, drones and cooking). Summary BitLocker has a previously unknown zero-day exploit that lets attackers gain full filesystem access. An attacker with physical access can use a USB and WinRE to bypass recovery and open a system command prompt. Enable a BitLocker PIN, strong password, offline recovery key, and BIOS/UEFI admin password until Microsoft patches.…