The iPhone, Apple’s first attempt at manufacturing a mobile phone, was launched to much hype in the US at the end of June.

This is the first serious attempt to hack the device, although hackers started work on the device within days of its launch.

Security researchers from Maryland-based penetration testing firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) say they have written two exploits that take advantage of “serious problems with the design and implementation of security on the iPhone”. They claim that one of the exploits, for the Safari web browser on the iPhone, could be used for stealing data.

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