Hackers, Hostile States, and Human Error: Why 2026 Will Be the Year Cyber Complacency Fails

<![CDATA[As 2026 begins, America is staring down a long-overdue cybersecurity reckoning. What was once dismissed as an IT nuisance or a post-breach cleanup task has hardened into a national liability. Cyber risk now runs straight through the economy, politics, and culture, and how decisively we confront it will test whether competence, accountability, and national strength are still taken seriously at all.]]>