ISMG Editors: Why Digital Skimming Is Still Thriving

Also: AI's Push Into Health Data, CrowdStrike's Move to Reshape Competitive Market Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • January 16, 2026

In this week's panel, four editors explored how old threats like digital skimming are evolving, why artificial intelligence tech's push into personal health data is raising new questions and what CrowdStrike's back-to-back acquisitions say about where cybersecurity competition is heading.

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The panelists - Anna Delaney, executive director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, executive editor of DataBreachToday and Europe; Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, executive editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity; and Michael Novinson, executive editor, ISMG Business - discussed:

• How digital skimming attacks against e-commerce platforms continue to evolve through stealthy code injection and occasional supply chain compromises, largely because organizations fail to patch and maintain basic cybersecurity hygiene;
• OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT Health and how the AI tech market's deeper push into personal ...