In an interview, Marissa Mayer reiterated that one of her regrets at Yahoo was hiring the wrong COO, Henrique De Castro, whom she fired after 15 months on the job.

Under Marissa Mayer’s leadership, Yahoo acquired social blogging platform Tumblr in May 2013 in an all-cash deal for $1.1 billion, and a source at the time said Marissa Mayer was “very involved in the deal,” working late into the night on several occasions to make it happen.

But nearly six years after leaving the company, Marissa Mayer told the press that it might not have been the best acquisition, especially since the company was also considering the possibility of acquiring Hulu or Netflix.

I think Netflix was valued at $4 billion and Hulu was $1.3 billion,” Marissa Mayer said. In hindsight, either of those two companies would have been a better acquisition.”

In 2016, Yahoo wrote down the value of Tumblr by a total of $712 million, which Yahoo said was due to a number of factors, “including our expected Tumblr operating results and a reduction in estimated future cash flows.”

Marissa Mayer, however, said her biggest regret was not being able to “separate the company’s assets by splitting the shares of Alibaba on a tax-free basis.

She said, “If we had done that, we could have saved shareholders $10 billion, or let them earn that money, and either way, we paid the tax.” She added, “Doing so will allow Yahoo to remain an independent company and potentially be more successful.”

Verizon acquired Yahoo in 2017 for $4.48 billion and merged it with AOL, which prompted Marissa Mayer to resign. She received a $23 million pay package upon her departure.

Just five years later, however, Verizon sold Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion.

Prior to joining Yahoo as CEO, Marissa Mayer was an early employee of Google. Since then, she has co-founded a startup called Sunshine, which develops artificial intelligence-based applications, including a contact manager.

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According to the report, 20 percent of branded phishing attempts impersonate Yahoo, and emails sent by cybercriminals contain the subject lines “Yahoo Award” and “Award Promotion,” ” Award Center,” “Info winning” or “Award Winning” senders.

The content of the email tells the recipient that they have won hundreds of thousands of dollars from Yahoo! However, in order to receive the winnings, users had to send their personal information and bank details — in an apparent attempt to steal sensitive data from victims. The email even told recipients they couldn’t tell anyone else about the winnings because of legal issues.

DHL was the second most impersonated brand in the Check Point report at 16 percent, while Microsoft came in third with 11 percent. Other brands on the list include Google, LinkedIn, WeTransfer, Netflix, FedEx, HSBC and WhatsApp.

Finally, the study found that technology was the industry phishers were most likely to impersonate in the fourth quarter of 2022, followed by shipping and social networking.

To protect yourself from phishing attacks, always be cautious when opening links or downloading attachments from unsolicited emails, as they may contain malware. Also, make it a habit to check the URLs of relevant websites. For example, if the URL does not start with yahoo.com, it is likely to be fraudulent. Finally, enable two-factor authentication (if available) to ensure that cybercriminals cannot infiltrate a user’s account even if the user accidentally provides a username and password to the public.

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