Last month, McAfee announced it was going to spend £23m on buying data-leakage prevention firm Reconnex.

Now the security company has reached into its pockets yet again and is to fork out $465 million for Secure Computing Corp.

A company that specialises in data-leakage prevention is to be bought by security software pro McAfee.

A £23m deal is reported to be on the table for Reconnex, which will be the second company in this arena of technology that McAfee has bought.