Information and Educational Technology today (Aug. 27) plans to implement the second half of a project that is changing the look of login screens for the campus鈥檚 Central Authentication Service, or CAS.
The login screen changes are part of a CAS upgrade this summer to improve the service and add more security features.
IET started Aug. 6 with smartphones and small tablets, giving them 鈥 for the first time in the CAS 鈥 optimized login screens. 鈥淭hese new login pages are designed to both make your mobile experience easier and to assist you in determining if the login page you are on is a legitimate 海角社区 page or a forged page trying to fool you in submitting your passphrase to an outside party,鈥 IET explained on an .
Today, the standard CAS login page gets new language plus an 鈥渆xtended validation certificate鈥 in front of the 鈥渉ttps://鈥 in the address bar, starting at about 11 a.m.
The new looks may vary slightly depending on device, software and browser.
To ensure you are on a genuine 海角社区 CAS page, look for 鈥渃as.ucdavis.edu鈥 at the beginning of the URL (not including the 鈥渉ttps://,鈥 which is not always displayed, especially on smartphones). IET emphasizes: If you do not see 鈥渃as.ucdavis.edu,鈥 the page is a hoax 鈥 do not use it.
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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu