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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BlueScreenView is a free crash dump analyzer software for Windows 11/10. It is used to analyze BSoD and minidump files. You can view minidump files using it and the reasons that caused your PC to ...

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 ...