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By McMillan, Robert Cisco's products will come under scrutiny again at this year's Black Hat USA 2006 conference, which kicks off Saturday in Las Vegas.

The middle-aged G-men who wear crisp suits and consort with teenage hackers sporting purple hair can make the two conferences that will converge in Las Vegas this week look like a scene from a science-fiction movie.

By Hamblen, Matt Q&A At the Black Hat USA conference in July, Cisco Systems Inc. and Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc. tried to stop security researcher Michael Lynn, until then an ISS employee, from giving a scheduled talk about a flaw in Cisco's router software.