Gadgets Bring New Opportunities for Hackers

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/te...7hack.html?hpw

Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with unsettling ease.

They found a hole in the software that helps display Web sites on the TV and leveraged that flaw to control information being sent to the television. They could put up a fake screen for a site like Amazon.com and then request credit card billing details for a purchase. They could also monitor data being sent from the TV to sites.
That last statement means even if you use a web-connected TV for a legitimate purchase, they can probably get your credit info. It might be wise to use a secure computer instead of something newer for anything sensitive then.