[Journal] Journal system hacked?

[Christian Willmes]

Hi Barend,

I am quite sure I disabled the registration on the journals OJS 
instance, since we discovered that spam user registration problem 
already when we prepared the instance for the 2013 FOSS4G publications. 
Someone must have re-enabled that, or we were indeed hacked?

I will have a look into disabeling the registration again tomorrow 
afternoon/evening when I have some spare time in between. If there are 
objections to that, please say so...

According the TGIS publication, about three weeks ago I got an 
additional review of my paper with (very good) comments from 3 anonymous 
reviewers, that I and my co-authors worked into the paper. We plan to 
submit the revised version tomorrow or at latest on Tuesday (the 
deadline is until mid July though).

Cheers,
Christian

On 14.06.2015 12:33, b.j.kobben at utwente.nl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> You might have seen already the announcement below I sent on various
> channels on the FOSS4G 2014 Academic Track publication in the OSGEO
> Journal.
>
> There were only five papers left (of the seven selected two have chosen to
> publish elsewhere). Thus once I finally had al materials, I could quite
> quickly do the actual editing and publishing.
>
> In doing so, I found that he OJS system has had a flood of spam/robot
> registrations: I found this when trying to send all users an announcement
> and having the system trying to send mail to 40169 users. Not sure who (if
> anybody) is at them moment (feeling) responsible for the Journal system,
> but it needs some tender love and care...
>
> Yours,
> Barend
>
> FYI: there were three AT papers selected for the Transactions in GIS
> journal, I asked their chief editor what the status of those is, but
> received no answer as of yet.
>
> ==========
>
> Volume 14 of the OSGeo Journal [1] has just been published. This issue
> comprises five research papers selected from the submissions to the
> Academic Track of FOSS4G 2014, which took place in Portland (Oregon,USA),
> from 8 to 13 September 2014.
>
> [1] - https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal/issue/viewIssue/35/6
>