After vulnerabilities were found to remotely steal files off of iPhones in less than a week of the iPhone’s public debut, the first patch is on its way. While this vulnerability made public attention, it was not the only one. There were also many other vulnerabilities in regards to the iPhone’s Safari browser that will be patches up, according to Apple’s update.

LAS VEGAS — Apple released three patches on Tuesday to fix numerous vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system, the beta version of its Safari browser for Windows and its sleek foray into the mobile market, the iPhone.

The patch for the iPhone comes two days before a presentation at the Black Hat Security Briefings by Charles Miller, a researcher with Independent Security Evaluators, which promises to reveal details of a serious flaw in the mobile phone’s stripped-down browser. The patch fixes that flaw and four others.[more]

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