It's never a good time to panic, but if you're discouraged I don't blame you; I know I am.
In retrospect, the grave concern over Heartbleed seems misplaced. As information disclosure bugs go it was a really bad one, but it was only an information disclosure bug and a difficult one to exploit. The sky's the limit on attacks with Shellshock and it's so easy to exploit that it's already being widely-exploited according to research firm Fireeye, which says they have already observed several forms of attack:
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