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	Hijacking means to take over by force. Hijacking may refer to: In property: Aircraft hijacking Aircraft hijacking Aircraft hijacking is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by force, by either an individual or a group. In most cases the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers.... or 'skyjacking' Carjacking Carjacking is a form of hijacking, where the crime is of motor vehicle theft and so also armed assault when the vehicle is occupied. Historically, such as in the rash of semi-trailer truck hijackings during the sixties, the general term hijacking was used for that type of vehicle abduction, which did not often include kidnapping of the driver.... Credit card hijacking Credit card hijacking Credit Card Hijacking is the term used when a person?s credit card information is used for undesired charges for goods or services where the credit card owner has trouble reaserting control.... Hijacking means to take over by force, and was popularized as a term during the Teamsters Teamsters The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a trade union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of several local and regional locals of teamsters, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar worker and white-collar worker workers in both the public sector and private sectors.... Vs. Independent Trucking industry owner-Operators civil unrest in Canada and the United States during the mid-1960s 1960s The 1960s list of decades were the years from the start of 1960 to the end of 1969. The term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends in the west, particularly United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Italy, and Ger... . At the same time, a number of prominent aircraft hijacking cases became well publicized, raising the media attention and publicity received in both types of crimes. The truck hijacking term was also incorrectly applied to the more numerous occasions when a tractor and trailer rig were simply stolen, most often while a trucker was eating or showering in a truck stop Truck stop A truck stop is a commercial facility that provides fuel, parking, and often food and other services to long-haul trucks. Truck stops are usually located on or near a busy road and consist of a diesel grade Filling station with bays wide and tall enough for modern tractor/trailer rigs, plus a large enough parking area to accommodate from fi... . In internet technology: DNS hijacking DNS hijacking DNS hijacking is the practice of hijacking the resolution of Domain name system names to IP addresses by the use of rogue DNS servers, particularly for the practice of phishing.... Domain hijacking Domain hijacking Domain hijacking is the process by which internet domain names are stolen from the rightful registrant.Many people confuse domain hijacking with the reregistration of an expired domain by a new party.... IP hijacking IP hijacking IP hijacking is the illegitimate take over of groups of IP addresses by corrupting Internet routing tables.The Internet enables communication between two IP addresses anywhere in the world.... Page hijacking Page hijacking Page hijacking is a form of search engine spamdexing. It is achieved by creating a rogue copy of a popular website which shows contents similar to the original to a web crawler, but url redirection web surfers to unrelated or malicious websites.... Reverse domain hijacking Reverse domain hijacking Reverse domain hijacking is the practice of inequitably unseating domain name registrants by accusing them of violating weak or non-existent trademarks related to the domain name.... Session hijacking Session hijacking The term session hijacking refers to the exploitation of a valid Session - sometimes also called a session key - to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system.... Thread hijacking bluejacking Bluejacking Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, Personal digital assistant or laptop, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field to another bluetooth enabled device via the OBEX protocol.... hijacking, term used when malware Malware Malware, a portmanteau from the words Malice and Computer software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent.... 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) Hijack (film) Hijack is a 2008 in film film about terrorism. it stars Shiney Ahuja and Esha Deol.Next remake will be in Malayalam with Prithviraj,Padamapriya,Bhavana, Navya Narain.... , a 2008 Hindi film starring Shiney Ahuja, and Esha Deol Esha Deol Esha Deol, is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She is the elder daughter of the famous couple of Bollywood, Dharmendra and Hema Malini.... Hijack (band) Hijack (band) Hijack were a hip hop music group from Brixton in London, featuring Kamanchi Sly, DJ Supreme, DJ Undercover, Ulysses , Agent Fritz and Agent Clueso.... , a British hiphop group of the early 1990s "Hi-jacked" (Joe 90 episode) Hi-jacked "Hi-jacked" is the fourth episode of the Supermarionation television series Joe 90. It was the second episode to be produced. Its original United Kingdom air date was October 20, 1968 on Associated TeleVision.... , the fourth episode of Joe 90 Hijacker (comics) Hijacker (comics) Hijacker is a Fictional character American comic book character owned by Marvel Comics who exists in that company's Marvel Universe.Hijacker was a gimmick-laden villain who specialized in stealing technology for later resale in criminal auctions.... , a Marvel Comics character hijacking, a term in partner dance, a temporary inversion of the leader-follower connection Lead and follow (dance) In partner dance, the two partners are labelled as the leader and the follower, or lead and follow. Traditionally, the male partner leads and the female partner follows, though this is certainly not always the case.... initiated by the follower Hijacker, a member of Bristol music culture forum www.hijackbristol.co.uk See also Hijacking (on Wiktionary), the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit. Piracy Piracy Piracy is a warlike act committed by a foreign nonstate actor, especially robbery or crime committed at sea, on a river, or sometimes on shore, either from a vessel flying no national flag, or one flying a national flag but without authorization from a nation.... is sometimes termed 'hijacking' Derived usages, including tradenames HijackThis HijackThis HijackThis, sometimes abbreviated HJT, is a freeware spyware-removal tool for Microsoft Windows originally created by Merijn Bellekom, and later sold to Trend Micro.... , abbreviated HJT, a popular freeware spyware removal tool for Microsoft Windows Hijack, a screen capture package for PC-type computers. Lojack LoJack The LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System is an aftermarket vehicle tracking system that allows vehicles to be tracked by police after being stolen.... , 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 Paul Kantner Paul Lorin Kantner is an United States rock musician, most noted for co-founding the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.... 's debut solo album, Blows Against the Empire Blows Against the Empire Blows Against the Empire, a concept album by Paul Kantner and others, was the first album released using the name Jefferson Starship.... (1970), telling the story of the hijacking of a starship Starship A starship is a theoretical spacecraft designed for interstellar travel, as opposed to a vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel....