Steam Guard is an optional extra layer of account protection introduced by Valve of March last year. It's similar to the Guild Wars 2 system that prevented Chinese hackers from having away with our ...

It is possible to authenticate your Steam account to protect it from those who might want to steal your digital items, and even if your identity. Gamers who have amassed a substantial gaming catalog ...

The reported leak of Steam user data was a bust, but the next one might not be. Protect yourself in advance by turning on Valve's Steam Guard feature. As with any site, you should be using a strong, ...

If you think your Steam account is safe, think again—there's word of a massive data breach affecting Steam on the dark web. I'm off to reset my Steam password and enable Steam Guard, just to be sure.

If Steam Guard is not showing Code on your Windows 11/10 gaming rig, you can try our recommended solutions in the order presented below and see if that helps to resolve the issue on your system.

Valve has officially announced Steam Guard, which is a new form “user rights management” in the words of Gabe Newell. There were all sorts of rumors about it yesterday, but now that Valve has made the ...

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