Speculation froths that Apple will be releasing a sweet little iPhone patch next week which, although not making your handset look like a pirate, will plug a few of those embarrassing security holes: one of which is set to be detailed at next week’s Black Hat 2007 conference.

As Spiderman said, “with great power comes great responsibility” and security professionals have been calling for Apple to step up and patch the iPhone’s vulnerabilities.  Few believe the handset to be any more leaky than its non-Apple smartphone brethren, but are more concerned with seeing how well the company handles updates.

Currently it’s not expected that any update released next week will contain anything other than security patches, rather than the extra features many are hoping for.