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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 12, and it comes with a useful feature that logs and captures any data added to the Windows Clipboard. This feature can help system administrators and incident responders ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...