Pinterest has locked an undisclosed number of user accounts as a result of a spam outbreak, the company confirmed in an email on Friday.

What is Account Lockout Threshold? Windows includes a built-in Account Lockout Threshold policy which determines the number of failed attempts before the user account gets locked.

Last month, a security researcher named Anand Prakash stumbled on a major flaw in Facebook’s account security. When an account is reset, Facebook sends a 6-digit PIN to the user’s phone, using ...

Pinterest has locked an undisclosed number of user accounts as a result of a spam outbreak, the company confirmed in an email on Friday.