Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress theme "Motors" to hijack administrator accounts and gain complete control of a targeted site. Microsoft confirms ...

The safety of buying Apple gift cards from anywhere other than the company itself has been called into question ...

A Western Pennsylvania small business was locked out of its own Facebook store, unable to access thousands of dollars in sales. Business owner Susan Hougelman said she has been unable to get any help ...

When trying to login to Windows PC, if you receive or see a message that says— The sign-in option is disabled because of failed sign-in attempts or repeated ...

Do you guys still have this policy turned on? Does it do anything other than DoS attack forgetful users and consumer dozens of technician man-hours per ticket? I have it set for 1 minute and 3 minute ...

There is an exchange 2013 setup with ActiveSync exposed to internet for mobile devices and in AD we have lockout policy configured to lock the user after 5 wrong attempts. The problem is that when ...

After trying to redeem an Apple Gift Card, Apple developer and author Paris Buttfield-Addison was locked out of his Apple Account with no explanation. Despite extensive media coverage and contact from ...

Microsoft has rolled out a new capability to all supported versions of Windows that will make it harder for hackers to carry out brute-force password-guessing attacks against local admin accounts. The ...

Why it matters: A recent Windows 11 Insider update is helping users automatically block brute force attacks. The attacks will now trigger an account lockout policy, which will automatically lock down ...

An Apple user experienced a nightmare when a gift card blocked his account for days and rendered data unusable. The incident ...

Microsoft announced today that IT admins can now configure any Windows system still receiving security updates to automatically block brute force attacks targeting local administrator accounts via a ...