Hijacking
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 (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
[edit] See also
- Hijacking (on Wiktionary), the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit.
- Piracy is sometimes termed 'hijacking'
[edit] 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.
