From the article: "if you use Gmail, please use Google’s new “two-step verification” system. .... This is not an airtight solution, but it can thwart nearly all of the remote attacks that affect Gmail thousands of times a day."

Here's more information: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=gu...

This additional protection will radically improve the security of your account against hijacking.