Received random spam Calendar invitation

If you have anything within warranty or under AppleCare contact the service and report this as an iOS / OSX bug in iCal.

I have an open ticket now. If many of us make the report the problem will be escalated.

That The NY Times has an article (and, few comments) about iCal SPAM may nudge the company a bit more.

I've founds posts about this spam issue going back at least three years.

You could try to send an invite to them :-)

The worst case scenario is pretty clear:

The hack that permits iCal notices that cannot be blocked is easily converted to an attack.

Consider how useful your OSX / iOS device will be if you start receiving notices at the rate of one per second. If the hack permits access to old, random-named, calendars will it be that hard to simply define a shared calendar and notify you from that calendar?

Weaponizing this hack is a certainty - the only question is when.

I've looked at iCal in Activity Monitor and it is deeply tied to OSX - and, given the lesser controls under iOS - iCal must be even more engaged in that OS.

Short of turning off Internet access, there is no defense.

Make service requests for a bug in iCal.

The hack that permits iCal notices that cannot be blocked is easily converted to an attack.

Consider how useful your OSX / iOS device will be if you start receiving notices at the rate of one, or one thousand, per second. If the hack permits access to old, random-named, calendars - as it did this past weekend with a special 2010 calendar of mine only used for a few months in one of my cases back then (screen capture below) how hard will it be for the hacker(s) to define a shared calendar using your ID and notify you from that calendar? I think that's what's happened to you where you don't have iCloud calendars enabled.

Weaponizing this hack is a certainty - the only question is when will it happen?

I've looked at iCal in Activity Monitor and it is deeply tied to OSX - and, given the lesser controls under iOS - iCal must have even deeper hooks in that OS.

Short of turning off all Internet access, there is no defense.

The only way that I know of to do anything constructive is by making Apple service requests about the bug in iCal by contacting support: https://support.apple.com/contact.

I've seen reports of this bug dating back several years. What I haven't seen in those years is the number of these SPAM reports that we are seeing today. When the New York Times publishes the iCal and Photo sharing bug in addition to 9 to 5 Mac and other Mac sites, this problem is growing.

The "fix" in iCloud to turn off in-app notifications had no effect on this last Notification - an Ugg phishing notification. Screen capture follows: note - not all email addresses are iCloud and neither are they limited to US email accounts.

What if aliens start using it, are we doomed?

Why do you always support the iCal SPAM? Every thread in every forum that has an iCal SPAM question you come up with the worst advice. Here you suggest that the user turn off the automatic Mail notification - rather than have a SPAM filter the iCal invites from untrusted senders?

Are you one of the iCal SPAM authors?

I called Apple Care. He referred me to this message board because Apple doesn't have an official resolution. It's really frustrating they haven't thought of spam control on iCal!

What an absolute joke.

I am not the one propounding weoponising it. It seems as if you are.

Unlike you I am proposing methods of dealing with it.

Dear all, sometimes it's better to disagree in silence.
I've turned off following this site.

I'll let Apple know for you.

I agree. I've noticed that these discussions eventually devolve into an ego contest.

Why do you get in them then?

(Agree with Ovadya.)