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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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E-Sports players compete in a video game "Counter-Strike" developed by Valve Corporation during the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) at the "Paris Games Week" on October 28, 2016. Steam, the hugely ...

Earlier today, disgruntled security researcher Vasily Kravets released a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows version of the ubiquitous gaming service Steam. The vulnerability allows any user to run ...