I've been waiting for the patch from Apple ever since I saw this come up. It finally got patched in the past couple of days. Meanwhile I just made sure I kept an eye on my system and internet with various monitoring tools and as default have flash/scripting turned off on my browser.
In my past life as a sysadmin/IT person, patching, maintaining and monitoring a bunch of work computers was part of my daily routine. The speed in which patches were released varied immensely across the various platforms we used. In the end I made sure all machines were up to date and then educated as much as I could the end users, which is the hardest part of all
I much prefer being a coffee monkey now, the only time the coffee machine could crash now is if someone pulls it off the counter