The Security Mentor

There's already some security news about Apple's iPhone.

Don't worry about most of what you read. Almost all the news and effort is about people trying to "break into" their own telephones to install new software or to avoid the need for an ATT contract (that last they've partly succeeded at. You can use the non-phone features without a contract using a recently released hack). That doesn't affect your security using the phone, at least not directly.

A company called Errata Security reported finding a bug in the Safari web browser that could allow a malicious web page to take over the phone. This may already have been fixed, and I question whether there's enough known about the inner workings of the iPhone that someone could do an actual takeover yet.

Remember, though, it's a computer that makes phone calls. Treat it with respect, especially if Apple changes their mind and starts letting you install new software on it.