One Stop Centre Holds Consciousness Session on Cyber Safety Threats and Legal guidelines

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 17 November 2025

The One Stop Centre underneath the Directorate of Social Welfare performed an consciousness session on cyber safety threats and cyber legal guidelines, aiming to reinforce contributors’ understanding of rising dangers within the digital house. The programme was held on the Directorate of Education.

Ms. Rukhsar Rahim, Para Legal Lawyer on the One Stop Centre, welcomed the attendees. The session’s Resource Person, Mr. Hari Krishna, SI, CID Branch, highlighted the growing sophistication of cyber threats and pressured that many incidents happen on account of insufficient person consciousness. He outlined numerous types of cybercrime, together with electronic mail scams, social media and banking fraud, e-commerce fraud, knowledge breaches, lottery scams, QR-code fraud, on-line job scams, financial institution link-share scams and funding fraud.

He additionally mentioned the broader challenges related to cyber safety and suggested contributors to stay cautious when receiving emails from unknown senders and to keep away from clicking on suspicious hyperlinks or sharing delicate data in response to unverified communications.

During the session, the helpline quantity for cybercrime complaints—1930—was shared with the contributors. Ms. Meenal Rajan, Case Worker on the One Stop Centre, additionally briefed the gathering on the Centre’s function in offering built-in help and help to ladies affected by violence in each personal and public areas.