eWEEK Newsbreak January 31st 2011

Each year, Fortune magazine comes out with its list of "The 100 Best Companies to Work For." And this year, IT companies are well-represented on the list. Four of them even made the top 10 including: No. 4, Google; No. 5, NetApp; No. 10, DreamWorks Animation and taking the #1 spot as the best company to work for is SAS. So what makes these companies so great? Host Ashley Daley breaks it down; And speaking of jobs to fill. This month, Google announced that CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down and co-founder Larry Page is taking over as chief executive. Almost immediately, Google announced a 6,200-person hiring spree; Starting Feb. 2, Apple’s iPad will host a tablet-only newspaper called The Daily. The digital publication will be created by News Corp and cost readers 99 cents per week; Google has penciled in a big Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet demonstration at its Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., for Feb. 2. The new OS build, named Honeycomb has been "redesigned from the ground up" to fit the larger screens populating tablet computers; On Friday, Microsoft issued an advisory on a Windows security vulnerability after exploit code for the bug went public. The bug, which lies in the MHTML protocol handler, can be exploited to cause data leakage. Specifically, it would be similar to that of server-side cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, where for instance, an attacker could construct an HTML link designed to trigger a malicious script and somehow convince the targeted user to click it. We let you in on how to protect your company.