An Introduction to Hex Editing for Cybercrime Investigators

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People interested in entering the growing field of cybercrime investigations can gain a leg up on the competition by learning how to use a hex editor. To “hex edit” means to make changes to the raw binary data — 1’s and 0’s — on a computer. “Hex” is short for “hexadecimal,” something I will discuss shortly. A hex editor is an application that presents the raw data of a file and allows…