It wasn't expected to take long before hackers found vulnerabilities in iPhone but few expected it to happen within weeks of launch.

But researchers claim to have found a number of security flaws in iPhone that could leave it vulnerable to being remotely hijacked in the same way your personal computer can. So far the flaw seems to be able to allow a hacker to hijack an iPhone that visits a web site hosting malicious code.

Once the iPhone is infected the hacker can control it remotely and steal any data on the phone. 

The researchers are not giving away too much information yet, to allow Apple time to fix the flaw. But they have threatened that if Apple doesn't fix the problem in a few weeks, the researchers will reveal more details about the vulnerability at an upcoming conference.

Expect more of the same as hackers get their hands on iPhones and start tearing them down. As far as security is concerned the iPhone is likely to be a victim of its own success. The more people use one, and the more information they store on them, the more economically viable the iPhone becomes as a hacker target.