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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...