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Into the servers and infiltrate them. this is what is called a ddos attack, a distribution denial of service attack. now, what is that? if you use the freeway analogy, somebody does something wrong and causes a backup on a freeway, a lot of congestion. apply that to online and that's what you have. they were essentially jamming the networks and forgetting people from using the internet smoothly. so that's what lizard squad did here apparently. at this point, we can tell you that microsoft seems to be up and running again. when you look at some of their twitter users, there seem to be fewer com...

So we are entirely dependent on what is their motive. what can they do with that access. right now we've seen very significant cyber espionage over a decade stealing our trade secrets, stealing our negotiation strategies, our blueprints. that is all quietly gone out the door. what happens if the motives change? and there are examples where the motives have changed. we have the situation of the financial services sector suffering these distributed denial of service attacks. it seems fairly benign to take a website down for a couple of hours and not very painful. at the same time, that's destruc...

i want to start with peter hanby in charleston, south carolina. talk to me about the romney camp managing the expectations going into tomorrow's primary. >> yes, after a week ago when they were up for ten points in the poll, they aare bracing fora second-place finish here which is not expected. last night, romney said it is a four-person race and we never expected to win here, and sure we could lose, but we will go down to florida to where we have a organization and a lot of support. and today, he told reporters that it was an uphill battle here, and echoing the line, and look, the r...

fighter jet. hope you have a great weekend. we'll be back here bright and early monday morning. >> it will be a great weekend just watching -- happy friday. we'll watch that primary, as well. >> it will be a great saturday. live from studio 7, i'm suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed for friday, january 20th. it's the eve of the south carolina primary. republican presidential race is now hotter than ever. newt gingrich turned up the heat on the news media in last night's debate. it started when our john king asked about an accusation by gingrich's ex-wife. >> she says caus...