Hijacking

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

In property:

• Aircraft hijacking or 'skyjacking'
• Carjacking
• Credit card hijacking

In internet technology:

• Domain hijacking
• IP hijacking
• Page hijacking
• Reverse domain hijacking
• Session hijacking
• Thread hijacking
• hijacking, term used when malware infiltrates a system without the owner's informed consent and performs tasks set by its the 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

See also

• Hijacking (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
• Hijaak, a screen capture package for PC-type computers.
• Lojack, a device to assist in the recovery of stolen cars.de:Hijacking

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