Are you sure the website you're on is the one you think it is?

IP addresses (192.168.1.1/lblauthenticate.html), misspellings (www.1b1.gov), fake websites (www.berkeleylaboratory.org), extra names (www.lbl.gov.whatever.org), and long confusing domains (abc.org/lbl.gov/webmail) are all ways people use to pretend to be legitimate websites.

Always look at the URL Bar and the Status Bar of your browser to try to discern whether the site you are visiting is the website you think it is.

It's easy to recreate the look and feel of the lbl website, but spoofing the key security features of the browser is harder. Look for the security indicators of your browser. Key indicators for Firefox, the Lab's Standard Browser, are below: