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BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2007--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) today announced that Energy and Climate Advisors, a joint venture company formed by Shaw Capital, Inc. ("Shaw Capital"), and London-based EEA Fund Management Ltd. ("EEA"), has been selected to serve as the asset advisor for Leaf Clean Energy Company ("Leaf") (AIM ticker symbol: LEAF). Leaf is a clean energy asset company that began trading today on the London Stock Exchange AIM market with an initial market capitalization of approximately US$400 million. Under the Asset Advisory Agreement, Energy and Climate Advisors will assist Leaf in the sourcing of investment opportunities in the renewable and alternative energy markets and provide support to Leaf in the screening, evaluation, development, and operation and maintenance of assets acquired by Leaf.

Staff training about simple email threats may have helped the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in New York from being hacked by a targeted malware attack, according to one analyst.

According to Bloomberg, the hack’s perpetrators obtained a “large quantity of data,” including e-mail and other documents during the intrusion.

Ovum’s UK based IT security analyst, Graham Titterington, said in a statement that many security mistakes occur within banks and other financial institutions because staff have not received sufficient training on threats.

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“People are people and have innate vulnerabilities with respect to trusting the wrong people, accepting inducements, or simply having more pressing concerns at the time they are approached [via email],” he said.