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Is displaying remaining password retry count a security risk?

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73 13 Some websites display a remaining password retry count when I input wrong passwords more than twice. For example, displaying that there are 3 retries remaining until locking out my account. Is this dangerous from security perspective ? authentication password-policy account-security share | improve this question edited Jan 16 at 9:16 Snappie 297 1 2 6 asked Jan 16 at 8:11 Ahmet Arslan Ahmet Arslan 481 1 2 8 ...