CCITT Committee Consultatif Internationale Telegraph et Telephonie:
Swiss telecommunications standards body (now defunct; see ITU)
CCS Computer Crime Squad
CCU Computer Crimes Unit (Australian Federal Police)
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability: DOE's computer security team
CITCARB Chisholm Institute of Technology Computer Abuse Research
Bureau (now defunct. See ACARB)
COBE Cosmic Background Explorer project: a NASA research project
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
DCL Digital Command Language, a computer programming language used on
VMS computers
DDN Defense Data Network
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DECNET A network protocol used to convey information between (primarily) VAX/VMS machines
DEFCON (a) Defense Readiness Conditions, a system of progressive alert postures in the US; (b) the name of Force's computer program which automatically mapped out computer networks and scanned for accounts
DES Data Encryption Standard, an encryption algorithm developed by
IBM, NSA and NIST
Deszip Fast DES Unix password-cracking system developed by Matthew
Bishop
Dial-up Modem access point into a computer or computer network
DMS-100 Computerised telephone switch (exchange) made by NorTel
DOD Department of Defense (US)
DOE Department of Energy (US)
DPP Director of Public Prosecutions
DST Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire— French secret service agency
EASYNET Digital Equipment Corporation's internal communication network
(DECNET)
GTN Global Telecommunications Network: Citibank's international data network
HEPNET High Energy Physics Network: DECNET-based network, primarily controlled by DOE, connected to NASA's SPAN
IID Internal Investigations Division. Both the Victoria Police and the
AFP have an IID
IP Internet Protocol (RFC791): a data communications protocol, used to transmit packets of data between computers on the Internet
IS International Subversive (electronic magazine)
ISU Internal Security Unit: anti-corruption unit of the Victoria
Police
ITU International Telecommunications Union, the international telecommunications standards body
JANET Joint Academic Network (UK), a network of computers
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory—a California-based NASA research centre affiliated with CalTech
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)
