by Tobias Burns | May 4, 2015 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — From automobiles to toaster ovens, everything these days is being built to go online. It’s an industry shift that will give companies access to usage information, allow consumers to program personal preferences into their appliances and add a “smart”...
by Tobias Burns | Apr 29, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Apple and Google have created dangerous “hiding places” by augmenting smartphone encryption that blocks government access to phones’ information, a Massachusetts prosecutor told a congressional committee Wednesday. But a Democrat on the committee called...
by Tobias Burns | Apr 23, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry placed the issue of U.S. trade agreements firmly in a national security context Thursday, saying two pending trade deals demonstrate how U.S. economic and national security interests are one and the same. “In our era, the...
by Tobias Burns | Apr 22, 2015 | National Security, Topics
As the number of terrorist groups around the world increases, so do the ways in which they’re raising money to fund their activities, experts say. “The funding is more global and more diversified than ever before, and it’s interacting less with the...
by Tobias Burns | Apr 16, 2015 | National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Despite a recent series of military losses, the self-proclaimed Islamic State is still more than capable of concerning Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. “They are frightening their enemies,” he said this morning at the Center for Strategic and...
