Hijacking
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Hijacking, Highjack, or Hijacker may refer to:
  • Aircraft hijacking
    Aircraft hijacking
    Aircraft hijacking is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. In most cases, the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers. Occasionally, however, the hijackers have flown the aircraft themselves, such as the September 11 attacks of 2001...

  • Carjacking
    Carjacking
    Carjacking is a form of hijacking, where the crime is of stealing a motor vehicle and so also armed assault when the vehicle is occupied. Historically, such as in the rash of semi-trailer truck hijackings during the 1960s, the general term hijacking was used for that type of vehicle abduction,...

  • Maritime hijacking or piracy
  • Truck hijacking
    Truck hijacking
    Truck hijacking is the taking of a truck: normally for the consignment being carried, by force, or the threat of force to the driver....

  • Hijack attack, in communication, a form of active wiretapping in which the attacker seizes control of a previously established communication association
  • Hijack (band)
    Hijack (band)
    Hijack were a hip hop group from Brixton in London, featuring Kamanchi Sly, DJ Supreme, DJ Undercover, Ulysses, Agent Fritz and Agent Clueso. Their first single, "Style Wars" caught the attention of the British hip hop community...

    , a 1990s British hiphop group
  • Hijack (2008 film), a 2008 Hindi film starring Shiney Ahuja and Esha Deol
  • Hijack (1973 film)
    Hijack (1973 film)
    Hijack is a made-for-television dramatic movie that first aired on ABC in 1973. It was filmed in the Antelope Valley of California.-Plot:Two desperate truck drivers, Jake and Donny, accept an assignment to haul government cargo. The men don't know what's in the cargo, but they find out another...

    , a 1973 made-for-television movie
  • Hi-jacked
    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 UK air date was 20 October 1968 on ATV Midlands. It was written by Tony Barwick and directed by Alan Perry.-Synopsis:...

    , a 1968 episode of Joe 90
  • Hijacker (comics)
    Hijacker (comics)
    Hijacker is a fictional 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
  • Hijack (Amon Düül II album), a 1974 album by Amon Düül II
  • Hijack (Barrabás album), an album by Barrabás
  • "Hijack" (song)
    Hijack (song)
    "Hijack" is a 1975 single by jazz flautist, Herbie Mann. The song was written by Spanish musician Fernando Arbex and was originally recorded by the group Barrabás for their 1974 album ¡Soltad a Barrabás!....

    , a 1975 song by Herbie Mann
  • "Hijack", a song by Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship from Blows Against the Empire
    Blows Against the Empire
    Blows Against the Empire is a concept album by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick, released under the name Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship, the first album to use the "Starship" name, although the personnel line-up was not the same as would appear on the first actual Jefferson Starship...

  • "High Jack", a song from the Psychic TV discography
    Psychic TV discography
    Discography for the music group Psychic TV. Items that have been reissued with the same names are not mentioned more than once.-Studio albums:*Force The Hand Of Chance *Themes *Dreams Less Sweet...

  • Hijacking, a variation of lead and follow
  • Hijack (poker)

See also

  • Bluejacking
    Bluejacking
    Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field to another bluetooth enabled device via the OBEX protocol.Bluetooth has a very...

    , the unsolicited transmission of data via Bluetooth
  • Brandjacking
    Brandjacking
    Brandjacking is an activity whereby someone acquires or otherwise assumes the online identity of another entity for the purposes of acquiring that person's or business's brand equity. The term combines the notions of 'branding' and 'hijacking', and has been used since at least 2007 when it appeared...

  • Credit card hijacking
    Credit card hijacking
    Credit card hijacking is a form of credit card fraud and the term is used when a person’s credit card is used by some unauthorized person to buy goods or services...

  • DNS hijacking
    DNS hijacking
    DNS hijacking or DNS redirection is the practice of redirecting the resolution of Domain Name System names to other DNS servers. This is done for malicious purposes such as phishing; for self-serving purposes by Internet service providers to direct users' HTTP traffic via the ISP's own webservers...

  • Domain hijacking
    Domain hijacking
    Domain hijacking or domain theft is the act of changing the registration of a domain name without the permission of its original registrant....

  • HijackThis
    HijackThis
    HijackThis is a freeware enumerating tool for Microsoft Windows originally created by Merijn Bellekom, and later sold to Trend Micro. The program is notable for targeting browser-hijacking methods, rather than relying on a database of known spyware. It scans a user's computer quickly, and displays...

     (HJT), a freeware spyware-removal tool for Microsoft Windows
  • Homepage hijacking
  • IP hijacking
    IP hijacking
    IP hijacking is the illegitimate take over of groups of IP addresses by corrupting Internet routing tables....

  • LoJack
    LoJack
    The LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System is an aftermarket vehicle tracking system that allows vehicles to be tracked by police, with the aim of recovering them in case of theft. The manufacturer claims a 90% recovery rate...

    , a stolen vehicle recovery system
  • Page hijacking
    Page hijacking
    Page hijacking is a form of search engine index spamming. It is achieved by creating a rogue copy of a popular website which shows contents similar to the original to a web crawler, but redirects web surfers to unrelated or malicious websites...

  • Reverse domain hijacking
    Reverse domain hijacking
    Reverse domain name hijacking , occurs where a trademark owner attempts to secure a domain name by making false cybersquatting claims against a domain name’s rightful owner...

  • Session hijacking
    Session hijacking
    In computer science, session hijacking is the exploitation of a valid computer session—sometimes also called a session key—to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookie used to authenticate a user to a...

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