Android applications come in the Android Package format labeled as APK. Occasionally, an error causes the default .APK files to be saved as .BIN files. If this ...

You might be wondering about .cue files and what they are. You’ve seen one on your Windows 11/10 computer, and you’re unable to open it. Well, we can say for certain that .cue files are nothing out of ...

CIFAR-10 problems analyze crude 32 x 32 color images to predict which of 10 classes the image is. Here, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains how to get the raw source CIFAR-10 data, ...

If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings across ...

As a file editor, Disk Probe lets you make changes to binary files in much the same way you use a text editor to make a change to a text file. By paging through a file, you can find readable text, ...

A signature should be small. This article considers a DS implementation example for binary file integrity checking in Linux (64-bit ELF). We will use a direct DS when only a sender and a recipient are ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...