Mitm can present in two forms: eavesdropping and manipulation. discuss the process involved when an attacker is eavesdropping and how to prevent such attacks.

Answer / Explanation:

Eavesdropping attack is also sometimes refereed to as sniffing attack. It is simply the process by which an attacker or hacker tries to penetrate very suddenly into an unaware individuals network or server with the intention to steal information transmitted over the network or server through that computer.  

To prevent such attack, there are several mean which include installing network monitoring software to check who else is connected to the network but the most common method of preventing such attack is to encrypt the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) and the way to do this is by securing it with a sort of security key.

On installing the security key, the network becomes encrypted and secured such that whatever network transmitted over the network becomes encrypted and unable to read. The protocol then converts to (https).

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