At times, the information Windows Defender or Windows Security displays is quite difficult to understand. If you use this security shield on your computer and want to comprehend all the information ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are looking for good free software to view, manage and analyze your Windows Event Logs, you may want to check out these three – Event Log Manager, Event Log Explorer and Lepide Event Log ...

Event 4688 documents each program a computer executes, its identifying data, and the process that started it. Several event 4688s occur on your system when you log into a system. For example, Session ...

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 ...

Every once in a while, I run across a little-known but very useful tool. Microsoft Log Parser falls squarely into this category. Originally developed to extract information from IIS logs, it has ...

Using the Windows Server 2003 Computer Management Console Event Viewer snap-in Your email has been sent Windows Server 2003 admins can benefit from using the various snap-ins included with 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 Event Viewer shows the system events and helps review app, security, and system logs useful to check errors on Windows 11. However, this handy utility can stop working for various reasons, ...