TECHNICAL DETAILS: FALCON CONTENT UPDATE FOR WINDOWS HOSTS

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On July 19, CrowdStrike released a sensor configuration update to Windows systems that triggered a logic error resulting in system crashes and blue screens. The issue was caused by an updated Channel File 291 (a config file) that controls how Falcon evaluates named pipe execution. CrowdStrike has corrected the error and updated the file, but billions of systems are still affected.