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New reports indicated that the latest hack on Square Enix's free members service may have compromised the data of as many as 1.8 million users.

It is being widely reported that Apple's iCloud and iTunes services are suffering a network outage, with users complaining that they are unable to log in.

Facebook announced today that Timeline, a radical overhaul of users' profile pages that documents their lives, is now available to everyone.

What do Ryan Dunn, Breaking Dawn, Revision, Asda and the royal wedding all have in common? They all topped the charts in this year's most popular search terms in the UK, as provided by Google.

Nine months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast of Japan, Google has uploaded photos of the affected areas on its Street View mapping site. The images show the path of destruction left behind by the tsunami.

New reports have emerged suggesting veteran games maker Square Enix has fallen victim to a second cyber attack.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has threatened to close down the English-language section of the vast user-generated encyclopaedia in protest over a U.S. bill against online piracy.

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 hitting the stores, 2011 has definitely been the year of the first-person shooter; but have you ever felt that the maps are a bit, well, small?

Apple opened its biggest-ever store last week, at the Grand Central station, New York.

Apple has shifted more than 100 million applications from its Mac AppStore since it was introduced less than a year ago, and the store now boasts thousands of free and paid-for apps.

Super-fast 4G mobile broadband will not be widely available in the UK until at least 2015, according to Ofcom's annual plan for 2012 to 2013.

The stupendously popular bird-flinging, pig-killing game Angry Birds celebrated its second birthday on Sunday, and to mark the occasion developer Rovio is giving away free gifts.

BT has announced a £2.5bn upgrade to bring super-fast broadband of up to 300Mbps to over 250,000 homes and businesses in Scotland.

An untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4 iPod touch running iOS 5 has been created, and the hacker responsible has posted a video online to prove it.

The hacker cell of the Anonymous collective has released a new video announcing "LulzXmas," leading analysts to question whether the group is planning a series of hacks this Christmas.

Facebook's social graph has the potential to become a utility in our lives as important as water and electricity, according to Christian Hernandez, head of international business development at Facebook.

A new Twitter game has branded London Mayor Boris Johnson as more of a party animal than Jordan.

Google has announced Currents, its much-anticipated rival to the hugely popular personalised magazine application, Flipboard and it's available now for Android, iPhone and iPad.

As part of the new Xbox 360 interface that launched earlier this week, and with Christmas just around the corner, Microsoft is offering a whole host of Xbox Live freebies.

Twitter has launched an entirely new update to its website, as well as the iPhone, Android and TweetDeck applications. We've had a play with the new TweetDeck for Mac, and here's what we think.

Fresh comments from leading industry figures have revealed an alarming new trend, showing a marked increase in the number of cyber attacks targeting the energy sector.

Twitter has launched a comprehensive overhaul to the social networking site, including updates to the website interface, as well as the iPhone, Android and Tweetdeck applications.

With 2011 drawing to a close we at the International Business Times UK aren't just looking forward to the tech 2012 has to bring, but we're most excited for the technology we'll all be buying in 2021.

With Anonymous AnonOps site being born exactly one year ago, the International Business Times UK takes you through three of the collective’s best moments to date.

From a hacktivist collective to a global political movement, Anonymous has dominated every cyber-crime related debate of this year, changing forever the face of online activism. But the collective has also stirred a controversy for its radical methods in South America, where it declared war against the drug cartels that dominate the region. Not to men...

Wikileaks has highlighted a company which produces spying hardware that can give surveillance officers complete access to a target's computer through Apple iTunes.

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman and former CEO of Google believes that the Android smartphone operating system is beating the iPhone and iOS.

Wikileaks has released a video on its website featuring Julian Assange talking about surveillance of civilians, a topic which features in the recently released 'Spy Files' documents.

Amazon will be bringing the much-hyped Kindle Fire tablet to the UK as early as January, if the latest batch of rumours are to be believed.