Paul Cy Phelps (17) of Detroit dragged the woman on the pavement as she screamed for help. The attacker released her gift on the purse and entered a near-by car. The woman was dragged 15 feet before being let go.

Using the tracking application, police used her password and permission to access information on the phone. Officers located the phone in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The police stopped the vehicle near I-75 and East 14 Mile Rd.

The police found the victim’s purse and phone in the vehicle. Two other purses were found to be stolen from victims in Taylor, Michigan including a 67 year old woman that had several injuries.

Kiara Lasha Harris and Bianca Faye Bell were also both arraigned on charges of unarmed robbery and fraudulent use/possession of a stolen credit card. Phelps was charged as an adult for unarmed robbery. Bell’s two year old daughter and 6 year old niece was also in the vehicle.

[Troy.Patch.com]

Today Apple released an FAQ on the MobileMe to iCloud transition, stating definitively that users will have web access to iCloud apps. Services like Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Bookmarks, Find My iPhone and Back to My Mac will be transferred from MobileMe to iCloud. Services not making the transition include iWeb publishing, Gallery and iDisk; TechCrunch notes that while Gallery is being replaced by Photo Stream, there is no announcement yet whether Photo Stream will allow you to publish your photos to icloud.com. Other additions to iCloud include iTunes in the Cloud, Documents in the Cloud and a backup and restore function.

MobileMe users will have to make a switch to iCloud by the end of June, when MobileMe services will stop running. Users will also need to transfer websites hosted with iWeb and save their Gallery photos to their computers.

Apple currently sells the MobileMe service for $99 per year for 20GB of cloud storage. Recently Apple made it difficult for people to sign up for new accounts, indicating that MobileMe is being ravamped.

Pretty amazing Christmas Story! Early this morning my 2005 Land Rover was stolen from the Marriott in Wichita Falls TX. The local police put me on hold, transferred me around and did nothing. My iPhone was in the car in between the seats and turned on. I tracked it using MobileMe Find My Phone to HWY 287 on the way to Decatur. When they exited the highway and headed on a Farm road for Justin TX a few miles away, I contacted the Justin Police and with the help of a very savvy operator we pinpointed the car at a Sonic. While I was on the phone with her, she said the officer sees your car and is going to make the arrest. A few minutes later she frantically calls me to start tracking the car again. The officer had handcuffed the suspects, sat one down on the curb while putting the other in the back seat. When he got back, the guy had Houdini’d the cuffs from behind his back to the front, fought with the officer and jumped in my car, dragged him and ran over him. I followed the car on the iPhone and directed the Highway Patrol to where he was – high speed chase ending with him flipping the Land Rover several times. The policeman is going to be fine – he is at the hospital with multiple bruises etc. The screenshot is where the car thieves ran over the policeman and escaped. I am just so thankful the policeman was not seriously hurt – I could care less about the car or the crook.

[9to5Mac via Gizmodo]

Around 1AM near the intersection of Amberson Ave. and Amberson Pl. in Pittsburgh, a man was robbed at gunpoint.  The two men asked for his wallet, PIN number for his credit cards, and his iPhone.  After taking the man’s possessions, they ran off towards Ellsworth Ave.

Officers arrived at the scene while the man was cancelling his credit cards.  And then the victim used Apple’s MobileMe service to determine the location of his iPhone.  It turns out his iPhone was tracked down at the Wal-Mart in North Versailles where the police started following the suspects.  The suspects purchased items with the stolen credit cards and then moved over to an Eat’n Park restaurant on Route 30.

The suspects were arrested there and had a black pellet gun along with stolen cash, IDs, and credit cards.  The three men charged include Bryant Rather (pictured above), Brent Ray Potter, and Myron Knox Jr. They will be charged with two counts of access device fraud, receiving stolen property, possessing instruments of crime, and conspiracy.  Rather and Potter are also being charged with robbery.

Her email address is shayek@mac.com
Go to me.com, forgot password, type shayek@mac.com
Her birthday is Sept. 2
Answer to change password question is: frida

The hacker guessed the ID by assuming that most Apple IDs are commonly the first letter of the first name and the whole last name followed by @mac.com.  Then the hacker used the Forgot Password feature and found the answer on Hayek’s Wikipedia page which had to do with her birth date.  Fortunately for Hayek, there is nothing incriminating in her Mac e-mail account.

This makes me question the whole security question standard that is asked when a password is forgotten is not good enough.  Sometimes the questions are too obvious.  For example, when David Kernell hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account, all he did was guess the security questions.  The questions had to do about where Palin went to high school, where she met her husband (the same high school), birth date, and zip code.

[via ElectronicPulp]