Continued use of Windows will generate a large number of log files, but how can one easily monitor these files without having to go through a series of mouse clicks? Well, recently, we’ve been testing ...

EventTracker, a handy tool that offers the ability to centralize Windows logs,correlate events to pinpoint an exact problem, and much more. While expensive monitoring products such as EventTracker ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 15, converting it into a protected process and adding the new ‘FileExecutableDetected’ option to log when executable files are created. For those not familiar with Sysmon ...

In Event Viewer, the errors logged are common, and you will come across different errors with different Event IDs. The events that are recorded in the security logs usually will be either of the ...

Can anyone recommend software for monitoring and analyzing event logs across a Windows 2003 domain? Something that will let me query for specific events, and perhaps even automatically notify me via ...

Recently Google announced two zero-days that impacted both the Chrome browser and Windows 7 operating system. Google released an update to Chrome to protect users from the issue, and Microsoft patched ...