Author of the second to last compiler -- although simple in scope, it was one of the more exciting pieces of our undergrad coursework projects to work through (translating a language into another language).
Implementing lexical analysis and parsing manually as opposed to using lex/yacc felt much more valuable to understanding the module, which was very useful for the exam. Definitely recommend the challenge!
I've received a bunch of calendar invites for "Free i PhoneXs from AppleStore" with a malicious link. Seems like this is now being used for phishing attacks.
Was having the same problem. Fixed it by disabling the adding events from Gmail automatically according to the Google instructions. I would rather choose what hits my calendar anyway.
I wish you could whitelist instead of just having a black or white option. My SO and parents I can trust to inject events (keeping track of stuff they've planned but I forgot is 90% of my use of Google Calendar honestly) but now that spammers have discovered Calendar as another place to spam/phish it's less hands off.
I'm getting the same spam/events. What's really weird is I'm pretty sure all of these emails are getting sent to spam but gmail/gcal is still adding the events to the calendar.
I can confirm it's being actively exploited this morning (I had a few folks I know complain about it). I think I should point out that the article was written in 2017 (!!!), and Google responded that this is a "feature".
I've been getting a lot more recently - seemingly being added from Gmail spam (either that or I'm getting directly injected calendar spam and the same as emails coming through). I don't want to turn off syncing as actual bookings being automatically added are useful.
I'm wondering about this as well as I've been seeing it for at least a year.
Are the events added before the email is sorted into spam? If so I wish the calender hook didn't trigger until the email reaches my "real" inbox. But I have no insight into the gmail lifecycle.
Got some too. What's super weird though, these calendar invites appear to have been sent from my iCloud email address to my gmail address, and also appear in the sent folder of my @me.com address: https://i.imgur.com/tz2TUh5.png
Anyone else can check in your gmail spam folder if you have those emails too and where they came from?
In that case, I'm going to hazard a guess that your iCloud email address was actually compromised, and is being used to send it to every address in your contacts.
Same happened to me last night, I reviewed all my access rights on security.google.com, couldn't find anything wrong. Reviewed my calendar access rights, couldn't find anything wrong.
If you go to the website you can mark it as spam. Then all occurrences of events from the same sender will be deleted. However there's nothing to stop spammers from sending multiple separate events from "different" senders...
Implementing lexical analysis and parsing manually as opposed to using lex/yacc felt much more valuable to understanding the module, which was very useful for the exam. Definitely recommend the challenge!