Someone May Have Hacked Dozens of University Websites for a Gambling SEO Scheme

People will do crazy things to get to the top of the "real money slots" search rankings.  Last week, researchers at eTraffic uncovered a scheme that sent a certain site rocketing up the organic search rankings. When eTraffic investigated, 76 different university and foundation web pages — including Stanford, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University — had suddenly begun linking to the site, each randomly inserting linked keywords into otherwise unrelated text.