Last year, credentials for PayPal, Facebook, and Airbnb were among the top goods on high demand in the dark web, aka the Internet’s underground market. But due to the COVID-19 outbreak, with most of the worldwide population sheltering, working, and studying indoors, many facets of life have made a full 180-degree turn—including the criminal world.

Some models of LockState smart locks also used by AirBnB customers were bricked by an OTA firmware update leaving guests unable to access their rentals. At the last Black Hat hacker conference, security experts demonstrated how to hack electronic locks, and the news I’m going to tell you demonstrates how annoying could be an incident to occurred to hun

Accommodation scams targeting Australian users and shared economy platforms have tripled in number from 2015 to 2016.So far this year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has received 150 reports of scams on websites like Airbnb tricking unsuspecting travelers out of a total of $80,000. That’s triple the number of reports in 2015, which

It might still be a little too early in the year to think about vacation, but there’s always a chance you’ll need some lodging and short notice and that’s where services like Airbnb come into play. The hugely popular service lets travellers temporarily lodge with people from all around the World, and in some situations that would be an attr