Incident responders and blue teams have a new tool called Chainsaw that speeds up searching through Windows event log records to identify threats. The tool is designed to assist in the first-response ...

As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

So I'm going to have to do some Event Log Analysis, with an eye on Security. I'm wondering what everyone is using to break down the logs, before they break down your sanity.<BR><BR>I thought there ...

This post explains how to view or clear the Event Log in the Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) on a Windows PC. Windows 11/10 OS may occasionally throw up errors, and at such times, you may want to get a ...

If you do not find any event log on the computer, restarting the Windows Event Log service might help. System File Checker or SFC is the built-in tool of Windows that can fix corrupt system files. It ...

SIEM and SOAR allow enterprises to collect and correlate log event data but may not be the ideal choice for every organization. Microsoft’s Windows Event Forwarding aggregates system event logs from ...

In brief: The Windows event log and Event Viewer are supposed to help users diagnose security issues and other problems in PCs. However, Kaspersky researchers encountered one hacker who used the event ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...