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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new fan-requested for Steam could potentially be a major factor for the platform's sales, allowing fans to more effectively ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

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 ...

Steam has been around since 2003, laying the groundwork for modern digital storefronts. Despite early backlash from PC players, it gradually became the go-to platform by putting users first and ...

Steam may be in for its most dramatic reworking in years. Steam beta users have turned up something very interesting in the platform's latest test client. As archived by Steam Database on Github, the ...

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