They were also known for having excellent command and control, and communication facilities, making them ideal flagships on deployments, with a complement of about 280 crew.

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The ship, the USS Mount Whitney, is the Navy's only Joint Command Ship and is considered to be the most sophisticated ship ever commissioned in terms of communication, control, command, computers and intelligence capabilities, according to the Navy's Web site.

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Damballa discovered the botnet in March and has been tracking its communication with command-and-control servers around the world.

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Argon, founded in 1997, is involved in intelligence, cyber security, and C4ISR, which is essentially communication, but officially stands for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

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Beaconing detection is the act of identifying the communication between an internal compromised host and its command and control server.

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