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New Kaspersky app helps you distinguish between Facebook friends and foes

New Kaspersky app helps you distinguish between Facebook friends and foes
Zuzanna Blaszkiewicz

Zuzanna Blaszkiewicz

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Facebook “friends” can be anything but, and now, a new app from Kaspersky Labs makes it even easier to distinguish between friends and enemies. FriendOrFoe analyzes the activity on your social network to see how your friends interact with your content, as well as what they think about you.

The web app is meant to be a fun but useful way to see social interaction and make sure that your profile is secure. The app not only lets you see how many photos and videos you’ve published or the number of likes on your profile, it helps you see which users interact with your profile so that you can clean it up.

Kaspersky FriendOrFfoe

According to Kaspersky Lab’s Head of Global Mobile Business Development Evgeny Chereshnev, “Facebook is the most popular target for phishers: in the first quarter of 2014, 79.5% of all social media phishing attacks targeted this particular service.” Presumably, using FriendOrFoe will help you distinguish between actual Facebook friends and followers, and spam accounts.

The most important security features of FriendOrFoe lets you check photos you’ve been tagged in or locations you’ve been tagged at to see if they’re accurate or inappropriate, shows you which apps have permission to access your account, and shows you your search history, which you can delete.

As Chereshnev points out, “Apart from the entertainment aspect, FriendOrFoe delivers an important message about the possible threats a user faces in clear, simple terms”.

The app is still in beta, hoping to get feedback to be able to expand and evolve to user needs. We’ve tried the beta, but it looks like they still have a few kinks to work out before it functions properly.

You can try out the beta version of FriendOrFoe on the Kasperky website.

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