Alice is a hacker who carries out two attacks on your network. These two attacks are briefly explained below:  

 

Attack 1: In this attack, Alice compromises many machines on the internet and then commands them to send thousands of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) SYN packets to your Web Server.

Attack 2: In this attack, Alice uses a packet sniffer (e.g. Wireshark) to capture unencrypted packets that are sent between two users Bob and Mallory.

Answer the following questions: (5 marks)

1. Analyse the consequences of attack 1 (2 marks)

2. Analyse the consequences of attack 2 (2 marks)

1. Describe one way to mitigate attack 2(1 mark)