As a current Dawson student, you have an official Dawson College email address Username: firstname.lastname[at]dawsoncollege.qc.ca Password: Your Dawson *network password. *The network password is used to login to the computers on campus. If firstname.lastname[at]dawsoncollege.qc.ca doesn’t work please try the Student Email Finder Microsoft 365 As a current Dawson student, you also have access to Microsoft 365 applications for your…

(this article was adapted from UMass Amherst) What is Phishing? Phishing refers to different types of online scams that ‘phish’ for  your information such as passwords, social insurance number, bank account information, credit card numbers, etc. These messages claim to come from a legitimate source, sometimes even the College or a friend! They may fake…

College employees and students have an e-mail account with domain dawsoncollege.qc.ca with Microsoft 365. E-mails were migrated to Microsoft 365 in Fall 2017. See a document on how to use your email account and compose emails. For more details on using Outlook see the Email User Guide .

There is a relatively new type of virus called ransomware which as it name implies ask for a ransom after performing a malicious action, which is often to encrypt every file it can access from your account (e.g. the network drives). You typically get infected executing an email attachment, or an infected encrypted file. If…

E-mail spoofing is a term used to describe fraudulent e-mail activity in which the sender address and other parts of the e-mail header are altered to appear as though the e-mail originated from a different source (from Wikipedia). If you have received undelivered emails warnings regarding email you never sent, it is possible you are the…