By Ryan Blitstein I SAN JOSE IF ROCK PHISH is the Microsoft of the cybercrime world, Storm is akin to Google: the upstart that has quickly gained enormous reach and the potential to generate loads of cash.

By Ryan Blitstein I SAN JOSE BEGINNING in March, 102 employees of the IRS received phone calls, purportedly from the computer help desk, requesting their user names and suggesting they adopt a new password. The callers were actually U.S.

By Ryan Blitstein I SAN JOSE SOMEWHERE in St. Petersburg, Russia's second city, a tiny startup has struck Internet gold.

By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Oct. 15--Mercury Interactive and several pension funds today reached the largest settlement yet in a stock options backdating class action case, according to the plaintiff's firm.

By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jun. 20--YouTube has created local versions of its video-sharing site in nine countries, including France and the United Kingdom, the company said Tuesday.