{"id":239780,"date":"2026-05-05T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:40:07","slug":"university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Alaska Office of Information Technology comments on phishing scam increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernlight.org\/stories\/university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase\">University of Alaska Office of Information Technology comments on phishing scam increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernlight.org\/stories\/university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase\">https:\/\/www.thenorthernlight.org\/stories\/university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 16:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thenorthernlight.org\">www.thenorthernlight.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UAA IT sign in Social Sciences Building. Photo by Bek Davis.<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, the Anchorage Police Department released a statement about an increase in SMS phishing, also known as \u201csmishing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Light interviewed members of the Office of Information Technology \u2014 or OIT \u2014 on the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OIT member Logan MacDonald said the department started using new technology to block scammers. However, he said the system does not catch everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald from OIT said \u201cwith AI, it\u2019s not if, it\u2019s when at this point.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>APD stated that it is understandable if users get scammed. The police report stated that APD will never call online users asking for payment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another OIT member, Kira Avery, said \u201cif it makes you anxious, don\u2019t click on anything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OIT member Chris Puga suggested going to the official website of the government agency and calling them from there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said another good way to spot a scam call is if it comes from an international number.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The OIT team agreed that scammers manipulate the emotions of their targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to reach out for more information before clicking links. Puga said \u201calways be alert and verify.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For students who have been scammed, Avery recommended reaching out to UAA IT or OIT and said\u00a0 reporting the problem allows for technological advancements and support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernlight.org\/stories\/university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Alaska Office of Information Technology comments on phishing scam increase https:\/\/www.thenorthernlight.org\/stories\/university-of-alaska-office-of-information-technology-comments-on-phishing-scam-increase Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.prod.website-files.com\/604544cb2c71103bae8c7dff\/69fa527b2f3e67f039ad3d58_IT.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-239780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239782,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239780\/revisions\/239782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}