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 ...

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 ...

An excellent PowerShell script is easy to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. When developing scripts, it's important to not just consider "working" a symbol of success but also that you have ...

Has anyone implemented an event logging system? I'm working in a 2008 R2 functional level domain, with all DCs set up as source computers and a 2008 r2 collection server, and I'm having a great deal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is apparently integrating System Monitor (Sysmon) directly into Windows 11. This pro-level tool allows you to ...