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 UC Davis page or a forged page trying to fool you in submitting your passphrase to an outside party,” IET explained on an IT Express Knowledge Base page.
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 UC Davis 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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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu