Describe the wide variety of security risks that HTTPS mitigates and the technique that it uses to do so.

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Describe the wide variety of security risks that HTTPS mitigates and the technique that it uses to do so.

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Introduction of HTTPS:

HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, and it is a secure version of the HTTP protocol that is used to communicate between web servers and web browsers. The primary goal of HTTPS is to ensure the secure transmission of sensitive data over the internet by encrypting the data in transit. 

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