hijacking

hijacking

Seizing unauthorized control of a computer or communications session in order to steal data or compromise the system in some manner. Following are various hijacking terms in this encyclopedia. See hack.

HIJACKING TERMS Bluejacking content jacking clickjacking cryptojacking DNS hijacking modem hijacking page hijacking piggybacking phone phreaking proxy hijacking replay attack sidejacking URL hijacking
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