{"id":10465,"date":"2011-03-04T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"valve-announces-new-steam-guard-security-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10465-valve-announces-new-steam-guard-security-service","title":{"rendered":"Valve announces new Steam Guard security service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you one of those people that just can&rsquo;t seem to resist handing over your Steam account details to friendly people claiming they&rsquo;ll hook you up with every game ever? Well, you&rsquo;ll be pleased to know Valve is introducing a new security layer to Steam and Steamworks, restricting important account management options to a single PC.<\/p>\n<p>With Steam Guard, attempts to log in, modify, or alter account details on an unauthorised PC will alert the user for approval.<\/p>\n<p>The service will apparently require newer, second generation Intel CoreT and Intel CoreT vProT processors, as it works with some newfangled Intel Indentity Protection Technology . According to the press stuff, &ldquo;IPT generates a new numerical password every 30 seconds, integrating into the processor functionality that previously required a separate card or key fob.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Account phishing and hijacking are our #1 support issues,&rdquo; says Valve prez, Gabe Newell. &ldquo;With Intel&rsquo;s IPT and Steam Guard, we&rsquo;ve taken a big step towards giving customers the account security they need as they purchase more and more digital goods.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because warning people to keep their logins private doesn\u2019t work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}