• Password managers are one of the quickest and easiest ways to help defend yourself against hackers.
• They store all your passwords — so you only have to remember a single, extra-secure one to protect yourself.

If you ask security experts for what simple advice they’d give to ordinary people worried about being hacked, the same thing comes up again and again: Don’t re-use passwords.

This is because huge numbers of people re-use the same passwords across multiple accounts, putting all their data at risk if any one of their accounts is ever breached.

Of course, juggling dozens of passwords for all your different logins is tricky. And that’s where a password manager comes in. A password manager is an app that stores the passwords for all of your services — meaning you only have to remember one.

Here’s why you should be using one — and how to do it.

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