Steam is a video game digital distribution service. It provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and ...

A researcher has dropped a zero-day vulnerability that affects the Steam game client for Windows, after Valve said it wouldn’t fix it. Valve then published a patch, that the same researcher said can ...

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Valve has pushed out a fix for a zero-day Steam Client local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability, but researchers say there are still other LPE vulnerabilities that are being ignored. After the ...

The popular Steam game client for Windows has a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability that can allow an attacker with limited permissions to run a program as an administrator Privilege ...

Some Windows users are complaining that Steam client apps stop with an error message that says “Steam Client Bootstrapper is not responding” or “Steam Client ...

Steam appeared to suffer a second major outage within 24 hours on Tuesday, December 16, as tens of thousands of users ...

Gaming on Linux has long been considered one of the most difficult things to do until the addition of Steam Client. As the service progresses, new updates are being released to make the experience ...

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Game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve has just pulled the curtain on a completely redesigned version of Steam. Available as an opt-in beta, the updated client is said to bring "hundreds ...

This vulnerability looks scary ... only until you realize that Steam allows game devs to install any additional applications/libraries which means a bad "game" developer can similarly force the user ...