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Using a hex editor

Using a hex editor

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Using a hex editor

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- [Presenter] Your computer stores everything in binary numbers, or in other words, zeros and ones. Criminals modify these binary numbers and fabricate them to hide their data. You need hex editors to find this hidden data. Hex in the term hex editors is short for hexadecimal. As its name suggests, hex editors allow us to examine and play with data at the binary level. In hex editors, your number appears in hex numbers, which represent binary numbers more compactly. There are many hex editors available. Some of them are free and open source. Others are commercial products. There are essential hex editor features you need as a digital forensics investigator. These include abilities to open big files or local drives. You frequently have to open an entire drive in a hex editor. It's problematic if your hex editor crashes because it cannot handle the file size or the drive. You also need abilities to make and save changes to…

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