APPENDIX 8: LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers
APACS Association for Payment Clearing Services
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ATM Automated Teller Machine
CD Compact Disc
CMA Computer Misuse Act 1990
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BSI British Standards Institute
CEOP Child Exploitation and Online Protection
Centre
CERN Central European Research Network
CITRIS Center for Information Technology Research
in the Interest of Society
CSO Chief Security Officer
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
DG Directorate General
DoS Denial of Service
DTI Department ofTrade and Industry
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation
EURIM European Information Society Group
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FIPR Foundation for Information Policy and
Research
FSA Financial Services Authority
FTC Federal Trade Commission
IC3 Internet Crime Complaint Center
ICO Information Commissioner's Office
ICT Information and Communication Technologies
IP Internet Protocol
IRC Internet Relay Chat
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISPA Internet Service Providers' Association
IT Information Technology
ITSPA Internet Telephony Service Providers' Association
IWF Internet Watch Foundation
JANET Joint Academic NETwork
LINX London Internet Exchange
LTSS Local Trading Standards Services
MPS Metropolitan Police Service
MSN Microsoft Network
MSRT Malicious Software Removal Tool
NEN National Education Network
NHTCU National High Tech Crime Unit
OFT Office of Fair Trading
PATS Publicly Available Telephone Service
PC Personal Computer
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
RCFL Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory
RCUK Research Councils UK
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
SCL Society for Computers and Law
SMS Short Message Service
SOCA Serious Organised Crime Agency
Tb Terabyte (1012 bytes)
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
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