Encryption vendor TecSec has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a group of tech vendors that includes IBM, Sun, Cisco, eBay, Oracle and Adobe.

"The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claims that the companies have infringed 11 of TecSec's patents covering encryption technology used by the defendants' customers to protect commercial data, such as credit card information and health care information," writes Computerworld's Grant Gross.

"The defendants have earned billions of dollars of revenue through the unauthorized use of TecSec's patents in several database management systems, servers and other products, the lawsuit alleges," Gross writes.

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