House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero said that when Republican staffers discovered their caucus blog had a rootkit virus, they tried to handle it in the least “invasive” way possible, but they realized they could not do that so they had to take it down.

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Tags: rootkit virus, GOP, computer, Capitol, Lawrence Cafero, malware, spyware

Around Jan. 10, CTNewsjunkie let the House Republicans know their website cthousegop.com seemed to be infected with a virus. At the time they said they were working on a solution, which they believed was related to the web server. However, someone must have dropped the ball because it never got fixed. CTNewsjunkie was told Wednesday that they are still working on it.

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Bolstered by comments from the White House this weekend condemning certain aspects of the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate, websites such as Mozilla, Wikipedia, MoveOn, Reddit, Wordpress, and 5,000 others will be “going black” for 12 hours Wednesday.

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Tags: MPAA, SOPA, PIPA, Chris Dodd, Connecticut delegation, technology, piracy

Overachieving college students may soon be able to generate revenue from their notebooks when Israeli startup Sleeve launches later this year.

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Tags: Sleeve, notes, University of Hartford, Israel, Ido Volff, Lon Seidman

Connecticut’s Congressional delegation is split on its support of two pieces of legislation currently moving through Congress. Three members of the delegation are co-sponsors of bills that aim to end Internet piracy, while four remain uncertain about how the legislation will impact the Internet as a whole.

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Tags: SOPA, PIPA, Congress, Senator, Blumenthal, Larson, Himes, Courtney, DeLauro, Malloy, Internet

Recent action by Universal Music against journalists from a popular technology podcast network hints at what the Internet might look like under SOPA/PIPA if the Motion Picture Association of America gets its way in Congress.

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Special FBI Agents arrested a Manchester man Tuesday for bringing down GeneSimmons.com, a web site operated by the frontman for the rock band KISS.

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The late Steve Jobs’ negotiations with the recording industry are now the stuff of legend. He famously told clueless music executives who refused to offer their product digitally that they had their “heads up their asses” and needed to start selling their content in the least restrictive way to save their industry.

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Tags: privacy, Movie Picture Association of America, former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, Internet, music, sharing, SOPA, Protect IP Act

A Connecticut attorney is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against a little-known California software company accused of embedding software in smartphones that monitors and shares personal information without a users’ consent.

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Trevor Eckhart, a Torrington security researcher, has set off a firestorm over his allegations that a diagnostic software company, CarrierIQ, is capturing the content of text messages and other personally identifiable information on hundreds of millions of mobile phones running the Google Android operating system.

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