For whatever reason, Ubuntu 14.04 does not seem to come with a firewall.
There are however two packages which provide, both a firewall and a handy GUI front-end for it. UncomplicatedFireWall is the main package (ufw) and the GUI is gufw.
To install:
apt-get install gufwThis will install the front-end and the dependent packages
To turn it on:
ufw enableThe default is to block all incoming traffic.
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