Glossary

Acronym

Meaning

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AOL

America on Line

AMA

American Management Association

ARPA

Advanced Research Project Agency

ARPAnet

Advanced Research Project Agency Network

AT&T

American

BT

British Telecom

CECC

Council of Europe Council on CyberCrime

CERN

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics

CERT

Computer Emergency Response Team

CIX

Commercial Internet Exchange

CNET

CNET Networks, Inc

CNI

Critical National Infrastructure

CNP

Card (or Customer) Not Present

CSI

Computer Security Institute

DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service

DEC

Digital Equipment Corporation

DISA

Dial In System Access (PBX Switches)

DNS

Domain Name Service

DoD

Department of Defence

DoS

Denial of Service

DTI

Department of Trade and Industry or Department of Timidity and Inactivity

EFT

Electronic Funds Transfer

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FI

Financial Institute

FSMA

Financial Services and Markets Act

HTML

Hyper Text Mark-up Language

ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICC

International Chamber of Commerce

ID

Identity or Identity Document

IFCC

Internet Fraud Complaint Centre

IFW

Internet Fraud Watch

IIS

Internet Information Services

IMF

International Monetary Fund

IPO

Initial Public Offering

IP

Internet Protocol

IPv6

Internet Protocol Version 6

IRC

Internet Relay Chat

ISP

Internet Service Provider

JANet

Joint Academic Network

Kbps

Kilo bits per second

Kilo

1000 or strictly speaking 1024

Mbps

Mega bits per second

MLM

Multi Level Marketing

NASA

National Aeronautical and Space Administration

NASDAQ

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

NCIS

National Criminal Intelligence Service

NCL

National Consumers League

NFIC

National Fraud Information Centre

NHTCU

National High Tech Crime Unit or No Help To Computer Users

NLP

Neuro Linguistic Programming

NNPC

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

NNTP

Network News Transfer Protocol

NSF

National Science Foundation

NUA

Network Users' Association

NW3C

National White Collar Crime Centre

PIN

Personal Identification Number

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

RFC

Request for Comment

RSRE

Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

SCADA

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SME

Small Medium Enterprise

SRI

Stanford Research Institute

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

UCSB

University of California - Santa Barbara

UNIRAS

Unified Reporting

URL

Uniform Resource Locater

USSS

US Secret Service

WWW

World Wide Web

xDSL

Family of Digital Subscriber Lines