HIJACKING
HIJACKING
HIJACKING
Hijacking
• is the forcible seizure of a vehicle, or a
communication device or service.
Vehicle Seizures
• Aircraft hijacking
• Car hijacking
• Maritime hijacking
• Truck hijacking
Aircraft Hijacking
• is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an
individual or a group.
Carjacking
• is a robbery (a theft by force, violence, or
intimidation) in which the item stolen is a motor
vehicle.
Maritime Hijacking
• is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea.
Those who engage in acts of piracy are called
pirates.
Truck hijacking
• is the taking of a truck: normally for the
consignment being carried, by force, or the
threat of force to the driver.
In communications and computing
• Hijack attack
• Bluejacking
• Brandjacking
• Browser hijacking
• Clickjacking
• Ip hijacking
• Reverse domain hijacking
• Session hijacking
Hijack attack
• is an attack where the attacker secretly relays
and possibly alters the communication between
two parties who believe they are directly
communicating with each other.
Bluejacking
• is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to
Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones,
PDAs or laptop computers.
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.
Browser hijacking
• is a form of unwanted software that modifies a
web browser's settings without a user's
permission, to inject unwanted advertising into
the user's browser.
Clickjacking
• is a malicious technique of tricking a Web user into
clicking on something different from what the user
perceives they are clicking on, thus potentially revealing
confidential information or taking control of their
computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous web
pages.
Domain hijacking
• is the act of changing the registration of a
domain name without the permission of its
original registrant.
IP hijacking
• is the illegitimate takeover of groups of IP
addresses by corrupting Internet routing tables.
Reverse domain 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
• sometimes also known as cookie 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.
Socio-economic issues
• Countries or communites that lack
economic and social opportunities run the
risk of producing high levels of crime,
which in turn produces high levels of
victimisation on hijacking.
Recommendation
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