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 ...

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 ...

These logs often contain traces left behind by ransomware attacks that could reveal the entry points used by the attackers and their "digital identity." Here are some examples of ransomware traces ...

Event Viewer is a handy tool that allows you to view and analyze detailed logs of various events on your computer. It is pretty useful when your system goes through a crash and you are trying to find ...

Free unofficial patches are available for a new Windows zero-day flaw dubbed EventLogCrasher that lets attackers remotely crash the Event Log service on devices within the same Windows domain. This ...

In Windows, a great deal remains hidden beneath the surface. As soon as it starts up, the operating system launches several ...

Using the Windows Update Viewer tool is very easy and apart from viewing Windows Update history in detail and exporting data as a CSV file or a text document, there are some other features provided by ...

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 ...

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 ...