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Cyber Security the Biggest Risk to U.S. Power Supply?

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    FBN’s Rich Edson on the risks of cyber attacks to the U.S. power grid.

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-- warning that could really stop this rally in its tracks and it's not gas prices it's not Iran.

It's not our own debt or the unfolding Greek tragedy but it could be a potential -- her entire power exists in the country's electrical grid.

-- -- in Washington with new hacking fears that's got the attention from Washington to Wall Street rich.

-- good evening Liz officials say warnings within the federal government regarding an infamous -- cooperative and its potential to hit the US power grid.

Anonymous is a collective known for recent attacks on government and corporate web sites mostly -- Protest crackdowns on illegal file sharing officials say the group is becoming more sophisticated in May soon have the ability.

To create a limited power outage in the US one cyber security analyst says the scale of such a possible attack.

Is mostly unknown.

The challenge is how we understand a blackout in terms of difficulty to recover.

If the attackers.

-- -- -- sort of been sophisticated enough.

To try to prevent the first through -- Possible ways that the technicians might seek to recover then you can imagine a blackout really lasting for very long time with incredibly calamitous effects.

Other analysts say utilities have defended against cyber attacks in dealt with blackouts in the past.

And assume any anonymous attack against the power grid could possibly be limited.

Just don't know -- all right thank you thank you -- --

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