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 the IT market grows, organizations are deploying more security solutions to guard against the ever-widening threat landscape. All those devices are known to generate copious amounts of audit ...

Last week I looked at some creative uses of log analysis for detecting malware, and ways to acquire Windows physical memory for analysis. What I've seen time and time again is where those in charge of ...

When my computer starts up slowly, I generally default to some common fixes, like disabling startup programs, clearing temporary/junk files, or restarting the computer. Sometimes it improves; other ...

The Performance Analysis of Logs or PAL tool is a free offering from Microsoft’s CodePlex site. PAL reads performance counter logs, analyzes them and reports on the thresholds using HTML based reports ...

Log data analysis involves reviewing logs generated from different sources to gain insight into the activities of assets in an IT infrastructure. It helps organizations detect and remediate security ...

Here are the three commands to extract Even logs using PowerShell. Using Get-WinEvent Using Get-EventLog Using wevtutil for Raw EVTX Logs You can run these commands on PowerShell or Windows Terminal.

Custom Views: The Custom Views panel allows you to create custom views with different filters. For example, if you want to see only the error logs, you can create a ...

In brief: The Windows event log and Event Viewer are supposed to help users diagnose security issues and other problems in PCs. However, Kaspersky researchers encountered one hacker who used the event ...