Steam Guard

Josh · Mar 4, 2011

Steam Guard, a new Steam account security feature offering two-factor authentication, is now available in beta. As a Steam account holder, you can now take advantage of this additional level of account security, further prohibiting others from gaining access to your account.

As a beta participant, once you've verified your email address with Steam, Steam Guard becomes available for your use and is enabled for your Steam account by default.

With Steam Guard enabled, anyone attempting to login as you from an unrecognized computer must first provide additional, one-time authorization. A special access code will be sent to your contact email address, and this code must be entered into Steam before your first login on an unfamiliar computer is complete. You will also be notified if any login attempts from computers other than those you've authorized occur. Steam Guard essentially acts as a form of "User Rights Management," where you as the user have greater control over access to your stuff.

"Account phishing and hijacking are our top support issues," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "With Steam Guard, we've taken a big step towards giving customers the account security they need as they purchase more and more digital goods."

Gabe demonstrated further development of Steam Guard today at the CeBIT computing trade show in Hannover, Germany. In addition to email-based authentication, Steam Guard will soon offer other forms of secondary authentication, such as Intel® Identity Protection Technology, a hardware-based security feature available with the new 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ and Core™ vPro® processors. With IPT, secondary authentication is effortless, as it is provided by the chipset itself.

To opt into the latest Steam client beta and begin protecting your account with Steam Guard, launch the Steam client and visit Steam Settings' Account tab, then changing your beta participation to “Steam Update.”

For more information about Steam Guard and Intel® Identity Protection Technology, visit Steam Support's knowledge base.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/5088/

I suggest everyone do this to secure their accounts on a higher level.

Update:

VALVe is so confident that this works, that Gabe Newell himself released his steam account information.

Username: gaben@valvesoftware.com
Password: MoolyFTW

Punkbuster · Mar 4, 2011

1st, also cool ima do it right now

PeNguiN · Mar 4, 2011

lol redling steam beta

Google · Mar 4, 2011

I dont need this!

Peter · Mar 4, 2011

It would be better if they did what Blizzard did and made an authenticator or an auth app.

Kyle · Mar 4, 2011

There better not be holes in this as well :mellow:

This is very stupid in my opinion. If I go to a buddies place I need to auth his computer as well?

Peter · Mar 4, 2011

That sounds about right. You know I thought for Steam, they would do something that didn't sound sketchy as shit.

retslag1 · Mar 4, 2011

its a one time auth. thing u do. it takes 30 seconds, get over it. and sad that noobs need it.

Nena · Mar 4, 2011

thanks for the info!

Josh · Mar 4, 2011

It's a one time thing, don't enable it if you don't want to use it. I don't see why you wouldn't want to though...

RagingCow · Mar 4, 2011

Generally, when you are being hacked, they gain control of your e-mail adress so they can reset almost everything on your account without you being able to regain control of all this...

Josh · Mar 4, 2011

RagingCow said: ↑
Generally, when you are being hacked, they gain control of your e-mail adress so they can reset almost everything on your account without you being able to regain control of all this...

The one time my second account got hacked, it was via steam password only. They hard code hacked it and I was notified via email that they changed the password and then the email of the account. I got it all back but I had no logs of anyone accessing my email. I still prefer this.

Brian · Mar 4, 2011

RagingCow said: ↑
Generally, when you are being hacked, they gain control of your e-mail adress so they can reset almost everything on your account without you being able to regain control of all this...

Not entirely true. Most of the time accounts are stolen by phishing methods, so they only obtain your steam login, then once they login, they change your e-mail on account. The account username remains the same, and after you provide proof of purchase for a single item associated to that account, steam resets your login. The only way they'd get lucky in getting access to your actual e-mail account is if your steam password matched your e-mail password and they so happened to try it out. That, or your steam account was stolen via a keylogger and while the KL was on your system you also logged into your e-mail account (from a non-saved session so it could record your keystrokes).

RagingCow · Mar 4, 2011

So remember, you have to be carefull on wich pornsite you visite. Some can harm you D:

[31Bravo] Ray · Mar 5, 2011

VALVe is so confident that this works, that Gabe Newell himself released his steam account information.

Username: gaben@valvesoftware.com
Password: MoolyFTW

retslag1 · Mar 5, 2011

interesting...

Josh · Mar 6, 2011

Ray said: ↑
VALVe is so confident that this works, that Gabe Newell himself released his steam account information.

Username: gaben@valvesoftware.com
Password: MoolyFTW

added to the topic.

Google · Mar 7, 2011

Ray said: ↑
VALVe is so confident that this works, that Gabe Newell himself released his steam account information.

Username: gaben@valvesoftware.com
Password: MoolyFTW

I'm playning games with his acc

MeXiCaN · Mar 12, 2011

He changed his PW (or got hacked) doesnt work lol.

Anathema · May 6, 2011

Congrats on getting the shit spammed out of you gabe.....

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