People in the UK have been urged to start ditching passwords in favour of passkeys, where available, as a way to secure their accounts online. Passwords have long been the default way many people set up and log in to accounts for digital services. However, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said on Thursday it was "overhauling decades of security practice" to instead recommend passkeys as the most secure option. Platforms including Apple, Google and X already let people use them instead