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Title: Apple will start blocking those iCloud Calendar spam invites Post by: HCK on December 03, 2016, 04:05:14 pm Apple will start blocking those iCloud Calendar spam invites
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Those annoying Calendar spam invites won’t be around much longer.</p><p>On Wednesday, Apple indicated that it was actively working to identify and block any further spam invites from hitting your iCloud Calendar. Last week, people started receiving suspicious spam invites on iOS and macOS alerting them of special sales for Ugg boots or Ray-Ban sunglasses.</p><p>The spammers were able to exploit an iCloud feature that uses email data to pop-up as Calendar notifications. If the spam invites were set as recurring events, the notifications would surface every day.</p><p>Address the issue, Apple sent the following statement to iMore (http://www.imore.com/getting-spam-invitations-your-calendar-app-heres-fix):</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3146227/software/apple-will-start-blocking-those-icloud-calendar-spam-invites.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple will start blocking those iCloud Calendar spam invites (http://www.macworld.com/article/3146227/software/apple-will-start-blocking-those-icloud-calendar-spam-invites.html#tk.rss_all) |