Hex: What and why?

In digital forensics, when it comes to examining raw data, when all else fails, a ‘hex viewer’ is your default tool. But have you ever stopped to think about why it’s a hex viewer?  

Principal Analyst Alex Caithness has, so have a watch and follow along as he explores the fundamentals of how computers think about numbers and the relationship between decimal, binary and hexadecimal.

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Don’t forget there’s a handy cheat sheet to accompany every vlog in the series - you can download this episode’s here.

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If you missed previous episodes in our Digital Forensics Essentials series, you can catch up here:

#Ep 1 - What makes epoch timestamps tick?

#Ep2 - Time travelling with SQLite Journals and WAL

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