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Security man Krebs' website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet

Monday 26th September 2016 15:00 GMT Matt Bryant

GRE packets?

Surely, if you're not expecting any incoming VPN requests to the IP address of your website, just block the GRE ports and ignore such requests?

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