Highlighter v1.1.3 Released
Written by Jed Mitten
Based on feedback from our community users’ bug reports, MANDIANT has released Highlighter v1.1.3. How much do you think you would have to pay for this amazing upgrade? $99.99 you say? Try again. $19.99? Nope, still too high. That’s right, for the low price of just a few clicks you, too, can have the update that everyone is raving about. Read the rest
Tags: highlighter, update
Highlighter v1.1.2 Released
Written by Jed Mitten
Hey, guess what?! MANDIANT has just released Highlighter v1.1.2 in response to your feedback – a fix for one particularly nagging issue with highlights and removals not updating the view immediately, and a few extra items thrown in to make Highlighter a little nicer to use. Read the rest
Tags: free tools, highlighter, log analysis, log review
Highlighter v1.1.1 Released
Written by Jed Mitten
MANDIANT is proud to announce a new version of Highlighter (version 1.1.1). There are big changes between our previous release and this one, so grab it while it’s hot! The biggest enhancements are bolded in the change log below. Download the new version at http://www.mandiant.com/software/highlighter.htm. Read the rest
Tags: highlighter, log analysis, product, software, visualization
Mandiant Highlighter featured on CyberSpeak podcast
Written by Jed Mitten
Jason Luttgens and I were interviewed by Bret Padres and Ovie Carroll over at the CyberSpeak podcast regarding our log analysis tool, Highlighter. Take some time to listen — the interview begins at 18m 10s, though I recommend listening to the whole show because those guys are fun and their content relevant. Read the rest
Tags: forensics, free, highlighter, incident response, log analysis, software
Mandiant Highlighter v1.0
Written by Jason Luttgens
I was poring over some Windows event logs about a year ago, looking for a security breach. We had good intel that a breach occurred on this system, just not exactly what or when. I was getting ridiculously frustrated by the number of non-relevant entries I had to mentally process and thought “there has to be a better way!”
So I searched the Internet and asked colleagues in search of an application that would allow me to quickly remove lines from a text file. Read the rest
Tags: forensics, graphics, highlighter, log review, software, tools

