Hijacking

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Hijacking, to forcibly seize control of something, may refer to:

Transportation

• Aircraft hijacking, the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group
• Carjacking, a robbery in which the item stolen is a motor vehicle
• Maritime hijacking, or piracy

Computing and communications

• BGP hijacking, the illegitimate takeover of groups of IP addresses
• Bluejacking, the unsolicited transmission of data via Bluetooth
• Browser hijacking, unwanted software that modifies a web browser's settings
• Clickjacking, a malicious technique of tricking a user into clicking on something different to what they perceive
• DLL hijacking, attacking a dynamic-link library
• DNS hijacking, subverting the resolution of Domain Name System queries
• Domain hijacking, illegitimate changing the registration of a domain name
  • Reverse domain hijacking
• Session hijacking, exploitation of a valid computer session to gain unauthorized access

Other examples

• Brandjacking, the unauthorized use of a company's brand
• Credit card fraud

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Hijacking
• All pages with titles containing Hijacking
• All pages with titles containing jacking
• Hijack (disambiguation)
• Hijacked (disambiguation)
• Hijacker (disambiguation)
• A Hijacking, a 2012 Danish thriller film

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