Online Password Security
The Background Sometimes websites will ask you to change your password. Maybe GMail, or UTHealth, or your bank, periodically changing your password is part of good account security. The Danger Malicious persons will sometimes try to trick you into revealing your password to a fake website, where they can read your password and break into your account. Not long ago, an important person in the United States government got an email telling him to change his GMail password. He followed the link, changed his password at the prompt--and a third party gained access to every email he ever sent or received at that email address. And of course, everything was published. It was a nightmare. How do you guarantee that a password-reset page is legitimate and safe? Any time a website asks for sensitive information--your password, social security number, or even your name or address, make sure that the web page: has a valid SSL Certificate, and actually belongs to the provider that you tru