Apple plans to be set later this month at the vulnerability in the iPhone, which could allow an attacker to gain control of the device remotely via SMS, a security researcher said on Thursday.

An attacker may use the weakness in how to manage iPhones SMS (Short Message Service) messages, to do something like the use of GPS, to track the location of the phone is turned on the microphone to listen in or take control of the device and insert it in the botnet, Charlie Miller , co-author of Hacker MAC allowance and the basic security of an independent assessment of the security analyst, said in a statement at SyScan conference in Singapore. The presentation covered the IDG News Service.

Miller said that under an agreement with Apple, he was prohibited from providing too much detail about the vulnerability. He plans to obtain a more detailed picture of the hole in the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas later this month.

Despite SMS hole, which could become a critical vulnerability in the iPhone is more secure than OS X on computers, said Miller. This is because the iPhone does not support Adobe Flash and Java, the software only works in digital form, signed by Apple, includes a hardware protection of data stored in memory and runs applications in a sandbox, “he said.

Apple representatives did not immediately respond to e-mail message to a request to comment on.