diff --git a/autopush/router/apns2.py b/autopush/router/apns2.py
index 0c6e9dc2..45ba64ec 100644
--- a/autopush/router/apns2.py
+++ b/autopush/router/apns2.py
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ def send(self, router_token, payload, apns_id,
             # re-established.
             stream_id = connection.request(
                 'POST', url=url, body=body, headers=headers)
+            # get_response() may return an AttributeError. Not really sure
+            # how it happens, but the connected socket may get set to None.
+            # We'll treat that as a premature socket closure.
             response = connection.get_response(stream_id)
             if response.status != 200:
                 reason = json.loads(response.read().decode('utf-8'))['reason']
@@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ def send(self, router_token, payload, apns_id,
                                   "your message {}".format(reason),
                     log_exception=False
                 )
-        except HTTP20Error:
+        except (HTTP20Error, AttributeError):
             connection.close()
             raise
         finally:
diff --git a/autopush/router/apnsrouter.py b/autopush/router/apnsrouter.py
index bff7e401..ba3d09d6 100644
--- a/autopush/router/apnsrouter.py
+++ b/autopush/router/apnsrouter.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def _route(self, notification, router_data):
         try:
             apns_client.send(router_token=router_token, payload=payload,
                              apns_id=apns_id)
-        except ConnectionError as ex:
+        except (ConnectionError, AttributeError) as ex:
             self.ap_settings.metrics.increment(
                 "updates.client.bridge.apns.connection_err",
                 self._base_tags
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 600d605c..21c9200d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ autobahn[twisted]==0.16.0
 boto==2.42.0
 boto3==1.4.0
 botocore==1.4.50
-cffi==1.7.0
+cffi==1.10.0
 click==6.6
 contextlib2==0.5.4
-cryptography==1.7.2
+cryptography==1.8.1
 cyclone==1.1
 datadog==0.13.0
 decorator==4.0.10
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ enum34==1.1.6
 future==0.15.2
 futures==3.0.5
 gcm-client==0.1.4
-hyper==0.6.2
-idna==2.1
-ipaddress==1.0.16
+hyper==0.7.0
+idna==2.5
+ipaddress==1.0.18
 jmespath==0.9.0
 marshmallow==2.10.2
 marshmallow_polyfield==3.1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pycrypto==2.6.1
 pyfcm==1.0.4
 python-dateutil==2.5.3
 raven==5.25.0
-requests==2.11.0
+requests==2.13.0
 service-identity==16.0.0
 simplejson==3.8.2
 six==1.10.0