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 ...

The default event logging in Windows 10 won't give you enough information to properly conduct intrusion forensics. These settings and tools will help you collect the needed log data. After a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Event Viewer logs events that lead to errors. The event logs can help you understand what triggered or where exactly the issue is coming from so you can be apply the relevant troubleshooting steps ...

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 ...

Have you ever needed to look for a certain event with the Event Viewer logs? If you did, you probably went through the normal method – opening the Event Log viewer, and performing a filter on the ...

Japan's Computer Emergency Response Center (JPCERT/CC) has shared tips on detecting different ransomware gang's attacks based on entries in Windows Event Logs, providing timely detection of ongoing ...

Windows > Windows only iirc though. This is what we switched too. The new Windows 2008R2 Event Log system allows for setting up alerts on specific event log entries, filtering and seems to handle a ...

Two newly discovered vulnerabilities have been found to impact an Internet Explorer-specific Event Log present on operating systems prior to Windows 11. A pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities have ...