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 ...

Windows Update uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to generate diagnostic logs in Windows 11/10, and save them in the .etl file format. The reason why this has been done is that it reduces disk space ...

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 ...

Microsoft is stepping up efforts to address ongoing performance concerns in Windows 11 by introducing a new system to collect diagnostic data from users experiencing slow or unresponsive ...

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 ...