As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California- San Diego, Damon McCoy served as part of a research team that was able to take control of a range of vehicle functions on a a pair of cars. The study results were published in a paper titled Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile, that was presented at the IEEE’s 2010 Symposium on Security and Privacy. It was one of the first papers to alert the auto industry to the very real possibility of remote cyber attacks. Now, 10 years later, the IEEE  Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy has acknowledged the significance of the paper’s contributions and its enduring impact on the field of cybersecurity by awarding it its Test of Time Award. You can watch a brief presentation about the award here or read more about the research here.