Four people close to Christie lost their jobs after a top aide gave the go-ahead to shut lanes to the bridge. Lawmakers are investigating allegations that Christie loyalists intended to punish a Democratic mayor who didn’t endorse him.

Christie has said he didn’t know of any plot to close the lanes.
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No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks and the Reuters story cited unnamed law enforcement sources as saying they suspect the ring leaders of the attacks are from eastern Europe, which is where most big cyber crimes have originated in the past few years.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/12/other-major-retailers-hit-by-credit-card-data-attacks/4439847/

MORE: Data attack at Target may have affected up to 110M

On Friday, Target revealed that up to 110 million shoppers' data may have been breached in the attack that it first disclosed on Dec. 19, when it set up a dedicated customer service line to handle inquires about the attack and began offering free credit monitoring services to affected customers.

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In unequivocal terms, Cisco CEO John Chambers made clear during a keynote and by an invitation-only media event at CES, the company's direction is toward IP video and Internet/network-connected everything.
At the media event, Chambers and other Cisco executives demonstrated its Videoscape TV services delivery platform. The platform is offered to service providers and media companies to deliver new video services and capabilities to customers.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2429421,00.asp

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Microsoft is readying an urgent patch for Windows XP on this month’s patch Tuesday, restricting attackers from completely taking over the affected computers

According to a Symantec blog post, successful exploits will result in complete compromise of affected computers and patching of XP will make it less vulnerable
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-microsoft-prepares-urgent-patch-for-windows-xp-1949737

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