Hijacking

Hijacking

Hijacking means "to take over by force".Hijacking may refer to:

In property:
* Aircraft hijacking or 'skyjacking'
* Carjacking
* Credit card hijacking

In internet technology:
* DNS hijacking
* Domain hijacking
* IP hijacking
* Page hijacking
* Reverse domain hijacking
* Session hijacking
* Thread hijacking
* hijacking, term used when malware infiltrates a system without the consent and performs tasks set by its creator in addition to (or instead of) the system's normal duties.

Hijacking may also refer to:
* Hijack (film), a 2008 Hindi film starring Shiney Ahuja, and Esha Deol
* Hijack (band), a British hiphop group of the early 1990s
* "Hi-jacked" ("Joe 90" episode), the fourth episode of "Joe 90"
* Hijacker (comics), a Marvel Comics character
* hijacking, a term in partner dance, a temporary inversion of the leader-follower connection initiated by the follower
* Hijacker, a member of Bristol music culture forum www.hijackbristol.co.uk

See also

* (on Wiktionary), the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit.
* Piracy is sometimes termed 'hijacking'

Derived usages, including tradenames

* HijackThis, abbreviated HJT, a popular freeware spyware removal tool for Microsoft Windows
* Hijack, a screen capture package for PC-type computers.
* Lojack, a device to assist in the recovery of stolen cars.
* Hijack (poker), the position two seats before the button in poker.
* "Hijack" is a song on Paul Kantner's debut solo album, Blows Against the Empire (1970), telling the story of the hijacking of a starship


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  • Hijacking — significa secuestro en inglés y en el ámbito informático hace referencia a toda técnica ilegal que lleve consigo el adueñarse o robar algo (generalmente información) por parte de un atacante. Es por tanto un concepto muy abierto y que puede… …   Wikipedia Español

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  • hijacking — Crime of seizing possession or control of a vehicle from another by force or threat of force. Although by the late 20th century hijacking most frequently involved the seizure of an airplane and its forcible diversion to destinations chosen by the …   Universalium

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