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’s 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 — for the first time in the CAS — optimized login screens. “These 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 Ƶ page or a forged page trying to fool you in submitting your passphrase to an outside party,” IET explained on an .
Today, the standard CAS login page gets new language plus an “extended validation certificate” in front of the “https://” 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 Ƶ CAS page, look for “cas.ucdavis.edu” at the beginning of the URL (not including the “https://,” which is not always displayed, especially on smartphones). IET emphasizes: If you do not see “cas.ucdavis.edu,” the page is a hoax — do not use it.
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